Bug 570436

Summary:	dev-db/mongodb-3.2.0: workarounds distcc somehow, resulting in abuse of build jobs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Ultrabug <ultrabug>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	julien, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2015-12-31 20:09:02 UTC

I don't know what this bastardly thing does but it uses 'g++' instead of my CXX, and moreover it somehow calls g++ directly rather than using distcc wrapper through PATH. I would suspect it hardcodes /usr/bin/g++ somewhere.

The results are slow compilation, abuse of build jobs (since distcc limiting doesn't work) and eventually OOM-ing on me.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2016-01-01 09:24:50 UTC

Ok, it's actually scons' fault. It ignores PATH by default, and build systems have to explicitly force respecting it...

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2016-01-01 09:38:12 UTC

commit cad1e743614674af89fc9fced03594bcab6f20a3
Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 1 10:36:29 2016

    dev-db/mongodb: [QA] Make SCons respect PATH, #570436

commit 52e99ad8745af634ced0e18fdf76410d14a0233d
Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 1 09:54:01 2016

    dev-db/mongodb: [QA] Respect CC & CXX

commit d8d31e5ad00737872046269b339e327bc715f318
Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 1 09:52:15 2016

    dev-db/mongodb: Convert scons_opts into an array, to preserve whitespace

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2016-01-01 09:38:53 UTC

It would be nice to get this upstream. Or make SCons respect the environment. Or even better make them dump this ugly piece of SCons and use a sane build system. Like waf or something.