Re: [gentoo-user] Building firefox-61 with distcc

[Daniel Frey]

On 08/02/18 13:57, Branko Grubic wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:33:15 +0200
> Branko Grubic <bitlord0xff@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 13:14:22 -0700
>> Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I discovered some of my plugins stopped working on Firefox
>>> because they've been updated to the new plugin format.
>>>
>>> I've been using distcc for a long time now, and I've tried to build
>>> firefox and it fails with:
> ...
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>> Same issue here with FF and distcc, it's happening for few releases
>> now, whenever I tried to find a solution I was going over some old
>> build system issues with FF on their bugzilla.
>>
>> You can disable distcc for specific package using package.use[1].
>> I have just two things set:
>> FEATURES="-distcc -distcc-pump"
>> and MAKEOPTS reduced in the nodistcc.conf
>>
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env
>
> It's not package.use but package.env, documentation url is right, just
> what I wrote before isn't, no idea what I was thinking at the time.
> Sorry for the confusion.
>

Thanks for that, I'll implement that. After I disabled distcc it
compiles fine. I wasn't using distcc-pump, just distcc. I guess I should
ignore the distcc article suggesting to file a bug when distcc breaks a
package, it doesn't look like they're going to fix it.

Dan