Add options to launch the compiler through tools like ccache or distcc

Create a <LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER target property (initialized by a
CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER variable) to specify a compiler launcher
tool.  This will supersede the CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_ARG1 approach to
using such tools.  The old approach set CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER to the
launcher tool while the new approach leaves this variable set to the
actual compiler.

Implement this property for Makefile and Ninja generators.  It cannot be
implemented for VS or Xcode generators as the IDE build tools offer no
such hooks.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmMakefileTargetGenerator.cxx b/Source/cmMakefileTargetGenerator.cxx
index 7b88bc7b2f..481f4fee6f 100644
--- a/Source/cmMakefileTargetGenerator.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmMakefileTargetGenerator.cxx
@@ -775,6 +775,25 @@ cmMakefileTargetGenerator
       }
     }
 
+  // Maybe insert a compiler launcher like ccache or distcc
+  if (!compileCommands.empty() && (lang == "C" || lang == "CXX"))
+    {
+    std::string const clauncher_prop = lang + "_COMPILER_LAUNCHER";
+    const char *clauncher = this->Target->GetProperty(clauncher_prop);
+    if (clauncher && *clauncher)
+      {
+      std::vector<std::string> launcher_cmd;
+      cmSystemTools::ExpandListArgument(clauncher, launcher_cmd, true);
+      for (std::vector<std::string>::iterator i = launcher_cmd.begin(),
+             e = launcher_cmd.end(); i != e; ++i)
+        {
+        *i = this->LocalGenerator->EscapeForShell(*i);
+        }
+      std::string const& run_launcher = cmJoin(launcher_cmd, " ") + " ";
+      compileCommands.front().insert(0, run_launcher);
+      }
+    }
+
   // Expand placeholders in the commands.
   for(std::vector<std::string>::iterator i = compileCommands.begin();
       i != compileCommands.end(); ++i)