Granted distccKNOPPIX isn't your work, others including myself use it to try to jumpstart their gentoo installs. I encountered numerous errors using it, most were my own fault, but it ultimately got down to an error on all the distccKNOPPIX machines it couldn't move past where on glibc, the distcc machines' gcc's said unrecognized option -fpie. I simply cannot seem to distcc glibc using distccKNOPPIX. If this problem is indeed reproducible outside of the several attempts I've had at it in one setting, I would advise warning users about it. It would save hours of headaches and give some meaning to mine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Just follow all the install steps exactly up and through the distcc stuff 2.Do the distcc stuff right also, spend hours making it perfect without a doubt. (seriously, if the error is mine, I will probably scream and die where I am sitting. I literally spent hours on end trying to debug the situation, and distcc works otherwise, just flops ALWAYS in this process for me - distccKNOPPIX that is, I am almost sure a gentoo distcc would not flop.) (I'd love to give you some config files/settings I used, but I scrapped the install, I just wanted to make note of the problem) 3.Watch the compile fail every time you hit glibc in the bootstrap process. 4.Disable distcc in make.conf and just emerge --resume and watch it not fail. 5.Do the math. Actual Results: I described that in the details. Expected Results: Distributed the compile and worked, supporting the -fpie feature as it seems it should. But its not gentoo's fault, but I do recommend ya'll warn about using distccKNOPPIX or if you're really feeling ambitious, try to reproduce the problem and track it down. My techincal skills got pushed to their limits in trying to solve it, I really couldn't get any further for I do not have the l33tness of the gentoo developers :) Sorry. I scrapped the install a while ago, this additional information section wont be too helpful to you.
Firstly, I'd suggest that you need to ensure that every gcc version is exactly the same across the compile farm. That might be the case already, though, so handing to bug-wranglers to hand to gcc or base system (or is it toolchain?)...
It was 3.3.x across the board in my case. The x probably differed, but the gentoo distcc guide said that didn't matter. Other compiles worked just fine. It happened during the bootstrap process on the glibc packages - so I assume you want to push it off to the toolchain folks. However, I also assume that if i did emerge --resume with distcc enabled, it would have failed as well... so this probably can happen in places other than the bootstrap process since from my small amount of knowledge, I infer that bootstrap.sh basically uses a bunch of emerges. So a reemerge or update of glibc in my situation should produce the same error.
We can't support Knoppix products.
No one said you were supporting anything. I was just recommending you point out that trying to compile with non-gentoo products could be a bad idea, as it caused (in my case) confusing, unexpected, and potentially irresolvable errors. If there had been a warning in the first place in the gentoo guides I would have never bothered with distccKNOPPIX even when advised to by some of the folks in #gentoo on freenode, and a lot of wasted time would have been averted. However, this is just my 2 cents. I know better now, others may not. My request is that you atleast place information along side of the warning about using different versions of gcc that discusses the possibility of failed compiles when using non-gentoo products, and that it only affects some packages, so users know that they might sit through a ton of perfect compiles, and then have a script like bootstrap.sh just die on them. Again, just a thought/recommendation, you folks are the experts. If you close the bug again, I'll let it be, I just wanted to draw attention to my cause and was not sure if anyone would recieve the message if I left the bug resolved as I really don't know how this stuff works.
I also saw this behaviour and have sent an email to the author of distccKNOPPIX, might he get things solved. My problem was compiling grub-0.94-r2.
I ran into this same problem using distcc hosts running Debian.
Neither Debian has the Gentoo gcc patches applied in its compiler. About distccKNOPPIX, the guy is working on it and will have a patched compiler soon. :)
I will mention something in the next version of the docs.
I can't believe there isn't a single mention to this problem in the handbook. Not even in "Using Distcc to Bootstrap"!!! I'm really pissed off because I lost to much time with bootstraping deaths. And it's all fault of the gentoo's gcc patches... I hope this doesn't happen in other situations, or gentoo will be quickly ripped from my drive.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45937
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45937 ***
