[distcc] local builds fails with -fPIC ?

[Martin Pool]

On  1 Feb 2004, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a strange problem. When no distcc-server is available and 
> distcc decides to run a task locally, it fails.
> 
> 	configure:5648: checking for i386-redhat-linux-gcc-3.3.2 option to produce PIC
> 	configure:5825: result: -fPIC
> 	configure:5833: checking if i386-redhat-linux-gcc-3.3.2 PIC flag -fPIC works
> 	configure:5854: i386-redhat-linux-gcc-3.3.2 -c -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686  -fPIC -DPIC conftest.c >&5
> 	distcc[32203] (dcc_build_somewhere) Warning: failed to distribute, running locally instead
> 	configure:5858: $? = 0
> 	configure:5866: result: no
> 
> For some reason configure thinks -fPIC is not supported although it works 
> if a distcc-server is started. This causes some software to not work when 
> build with distcc (but without distcc-servers). If build without distcc, 
> it works (as -fPIC is supported).

I think this is because configure interprets the occurrence of any
stderr messages as meaning "failed".  Sucks.  

All I can suggent for the moment is not to have down hosts in the list
when running configure, or set DISTCC_LOG.

--
Martin
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