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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13411





------- Additional Comments From acedit AT armory.com  2007-02-23 21:49 -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > Not exporting the variable "seems to help" doesnt really compute. If 
> > we're not
> > exporting it, then its probably not using it.
> 
> its using the default value which happens to be ~/.distcc

So what we were doing was broken. It should be fixed.


> 
> > What is this directory for? Why are we stuffing data into the user's HOME
> DIRECTORY?
> 
> its for user configured information for example $DISTCC_DIR/hosts contains 
> the
> hosts that distcc will use so its nice making it per user since each user 
> doing
> different compiles can use different hosts if they want.

Actually the hosts it uses are configured through sorcery. This is not the
appropriate time or place to be making decisions like this. Fix the behavior,
dont modify it on a whim.

> And technically we
> always have been stuffing this into the users home directory we just didn't 
> know
> about it because distcc was using this by default.

So by this logic because something is broken for a long time and we didnt know
about it, it shouldnt be fixed?

Furthermore, if you're correct and the variable wasnt being used then you 
didnt
actually change anything, your patch does nothing to address the problem. It
simply changes variables intended to control distcc to mimic distcc instead.
Thats deceptive and poor engineering.

> 
> > What is the problem with using the source directory? That shouldn't be 
> > staged
> > either, right?
> 
> I don't know why I'd have to rtfc the distcc code to figure out why setting
> DISTCC_DIR is somehow breaking the system... It could be that we need to 
> create
> the .distcc directory in source directory first... I'll test that this 
> weekend...

that'd be a much better approach....

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