I finally got fed up with distcc i686 cross compilation being miserable, and I tracked it down to some silly stuff that removes the "-pc" from the host tuple: https://github.com/distcc/distcc/blob/033630dfe00951d9511c8c2a3dc17f3c9328cf58/src/compile.c#L593 It then goes to look for an executable in PATH that matches the mangled name, which fails since the executable has the "-pc" in the filename. In fact looks like it's a known issue upstream refuses to fix because they claim it would break Debian/etc.: https://github.com/distcc/distcc/issues/377 I don't have any Debian/etc. installations around to check so won't bother reopening the upstream argument. I'm now carrying a patch on all my i686 machines to skip that crap. I would suggest such a patch should be part of the actual ebuild. Reproducible: Always
I agree with you and left an angry comment there. Yes, distcc is a really bad project. It's the kind of upstream that fixes only bugs that affect their corporate sponsors/employers, and don't care that things are broken for a lot of people (see distcc-pump). Could you make a patch for me to apply?
Did you try setting that DISTCC_NO_CROSS_REWRITE thingy from https://github.com/distcc/distcc/commit/2b160f3d20bc235c02c3b3da89d02a52509768e8 ?
(In reply to Maciej Mrozowski from comment #2) > Did you try setting that DISTCC_NO_CROSS_REWRITE thingy from > https://github.com/distcc/distcc/commit/ > 2b160f3d20bc235c02c3b3da89d02a52509768e8 ? We want it to rewrite, not prevent it from rewriting.
Created attachment 689082 [details, diff] [PATCH] distcc: fix i686 cross compile This is the patch I threw into /etc/portage/patches on my i686 machines.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=76151f32fbd41247e5d01f88207db2a084f6e661 commit 76151f32fbd41247e5d01f88207db2a084f6e661 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-03-02 17:23:51 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-03-02 18:16:45 +0000 sys-devel/distcc: Disable CHOST rewrites that break i686 cross Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/773652 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> ...stcc-3.3.3-r2.ebuild => distcc-3.3.3-r3.ebuild} | 2 ++ .../files/distcc-3.3.3-no-rewrite-chost.patch | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
This broke again because the patch was not included in the distcc-3.4 ebuild for whatever reason. Apparently upstream has finally come up with a fix for this: https://github.com/distcc/distcc/commit/850db9eec0d5dd7f47ade8ffca91b679081f6d85 Tested that one here and it works too. So please either pick that up, or reinstate the original hack patch.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a43ee9d85165ae7913807d321bf3e73c32fd3247 commit a43ee9d85165ae7913807d321bf3e73c32fd3247 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-09-27 04:26:27 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-09-27 04:26:27 +0000 sys-devel/distcc: backport CHOST rewriting fix (deux) Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/773652 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> sys-devel/distcc/distcc-3.4-r3.ebuild | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../distcc/files/distcc-3.4-rewrite-chost.patch | 79 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 265 insertions(+)
Thank you!
