Re: [Boost-build] distcc and local linking issues

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] distcc and local linking issues
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-05 11:36:12

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 03:19:56 Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I've tried using distcc in place of the gcc compiler and I keep
>> finding this linking error.
>
> Which linking error?
>

Something pertaining to missing the implementations of the standard
library functions...

>> I understand that linking is done locally
>> from where I'm building the executables, but are there any caveats
>> that I should be looking out for?
>>
>> I'm running the build in a virtual box running Ubuntu 8.10 (32-bit)
>> and another desktop running distcc with Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit) having
>> the same compiler run with -m32 (to ensure 32-bit builds).
>>
>> My user-config.jam looks like this:
>>
>>   using gcc : 4.2 : distcc : <cxxflags>-m32 ;
>>
>> Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> You probably need <linkflags>-m32 as well, though it's a blue-sky guess. If that
> does not help, I would recommend simplifying your testcase as much as possible,
> and see if building with distcc directly works -- I did not ever try this 32/64-bit
> distcc setup. You might also want to try icecream -- which might do something different
> in such mixed environment.
>

Apparently not only is <linkflags>-m32 required, so is <linkflags>-lstdc++ :D

So now just for future reference to others who might be thinking of
doing the same, you can try the following user-config.jam entry for
distcc:

  using gcc : : distcc : <cxxflags>-m32 <linkflags>-m32 <linkflags>-lstdc++ ;

Thanks for the thought-provoking ideas Volodya!

-- 
Dean Michael C. Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.