Package: distcc
Version: 2.18.3-4
Severity: wishlist

Hello Carsten,

I am using distcc together with aranym and gcc-cross-m68k to build
Debian package for debian-m68k. For the most part it works great,
since I managed to build a large part of KDE, iceweasel, etc.

There are two minor tweak to distcc that are necessary to make distcc
run more smoothly. It would be great it they could be configurable at
run time.

1) The variable dcc_io_timeout is hardcoded to 300
in src/io.c. Aranym IO being relatively slow it is safer to
increase this value to avoid spurious timeout with huge
source file. So I would like it to be runtime configurable.
Personnaly I have set it to 3000.

2) the function dcc_source_needs_local in src/filename.c
checks whether the input file looks like autoconf test.
However this is not a reliable test and sometime interfers
with proper operation of distcc, so I need to disable it.
It would be nice if it was runtime configurable.

Cheers,

Second this -- I am just compiling wireshark and ran into this:

/bin/sh ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -DINET6 ...
libtool: link: gcc -shared  -fPIC -DPIC  .libs/packet-tango.o
-L/usr/local/lib  -O2 -pthread -Wl,--as-needed   -pthread -Wl,-soname
--Wl,tango.so -o .libs/tango.so
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "tango.la" && ln -s "../tango.la" "tango.la" )
distcc[18196] (dcc_select_for_read) ERROR: IO timeout
distcc[18196] (dcc_r_token_int) ERROR: read failed while waiting for token "DONE"
distcc[18196] (dcc_r_result_header) ERROR: server provided no answer. Is the
server configured to allow access from your IP address? Does the server have
the compiler installed? Is the server configured to access the compiler?

But, truth be told, the remote matchine is an i3, so not terribly slow,
it's just that this particular file actually took longer than 5 minutes
to compile! (It's now running locally, and has been for another 5 mins)