[distcc] -MD and -o behaviour (again)

[Thomas Walker]

I'm curious as to whether there is any alternative workaround currently
being looked at for the way distcc handles -MD and -o.  I understand the
problems that have cropped up as a result of gcc3.x deciding to change
the -MD behaviour slightly.  Distcc appears to workaround the issue by
stripping all -o options and adding a -E before passsing the command to
the preprocessor.  This has the unfortunate side effect of not allowing
you to create .d and .o on a single pass and dump both of them to
something other than the cwd.

if I run:
$ distcc gcc -c hello.c -MD -o ../build/hello.o

then the dependency generation portion of the command comes out as:
gcc -c hello.c -MD -E

and the compile portion comes out as:
gcc -c hello.c -o ../.build/hello.o

this results in the .o file being placed correclty in ../build/ but the
.d file being dumped in the cwd.  It is possible to make this work
correclty via 2 seperate compiler passes but that seems a bit
unnecessary.  Any other ideas?

Tom.

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