[distcc] Problem between RHEL3 Update 7 and previous updates

[Martin Pool]

On  9 Aug 2006, raja at ece.gatech.edu wrote:
> > I suspect the machines actually have different versions of gcc too.
> > This does not seem to be a distcc bug.
> 
> Yes, the gcc changes from gcc-3.2.3-53 => gcc-3.2.3-54 in RHEL3 U7. But
> such minor changes were made in previous RHEL3 updates as well.
> 
> I had a feeling that updates for a particular version of OS(RHEL3 in my
> case) wouldnt disturb distcc. 

The U7 compiler is incompatible with the previous libc headers.  The
compiler and its headers are coupled together; the fact that you can
sometimes get away with using incorrect versions doesn't mean it's
always going to work so your feeling was wrong.  You can provoke the
same bug in purely local compilations.

-- 
Martin