virtualbox-ose fails due to bug in distcc when parsing proprocessor options

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This bug came to my attention when trying to build virtualbox in a setup using 
distcc.

Related reports are:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351979
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306409

This lead me to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626926

There one can find a full analysis of the problem, along with a patch.

I'll attach the patch here for completeness; full credit goes to Jiri Palecek, 
the reporter of the above-mentioned debian bug.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jmbreue...@googlemail.com on 28 Jul 2011 at 3:23

Attachments:

• fixArgc.patch

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I can confirm both the bug and the effectiveness of the suggested patch.

Original comment by Zougl...@gmail.com on 31 Oct 2011 at 4:56

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The patch looks good to me too.  I have applied it in revision 750 in the 
distcc svn respository.

Thanks for the patch!

Original comment by fergus.h...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2011 at 5:50

• Changed state: Fixed