[distcc] distcc fails when using "gcc -specs"

[Martin Pool]

On 30 Dec 2003 Bill Hayden <bhayden at webmd.net> wrote:

> I was very excited when I read about distcc, but unfortunately I ran
> into problems almost immediately when trying to use it.
> 
> I use a specs file in my project to add several dozen new include paths
> to gcc's standard list of include paths.  This affects only
> preprocessing and not compilation... however, the remote distcc process
> is apparently still trying to use the specs file and complains that it
> can't find it (which is true of course).
> 
> Shouldn't distcc strip the -specs option from the options passed to the
> remote distcc?  Or is there a another way to handle this that I'm not
> thinking of?

I don't think that would work.  You can specify options to cc1 in the
.spec file, and they need to be seen on the remote machine.  Stripping
the -specs option would break this.

distcc should probably decline to distribute commands with the -specs
option.

Why don't you just specify -I options like everyone else?

> I am using distcc 2.12 and gcc 3.3.1, on Mandrake 9.2.  The error looks
> like this:
> 
> distcc -Wall -Wno-multichar -c -g -O2 -pipe -specs=../myproj.specs
> -Woverloaded-virtual -Wnon-virtual-dtor -fexceptions test.cpp -o
> objs/test.o
> cc: ../myproj.specs: No such file or directory
> distcc[23272] ERROR: compile on 172.25.1.121 failed

-- 
Martin 
                               linux.conf.au -- Adelaide, January 2004
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