Pass -D__KERNEL__ over the wire about distcc HOT 3 CLOSED

Let me see if I understand... you have a special "hardened" gcc toolchain, and 
you're using it to compile the 
Linux kernel.  Your special toolchain has some patches to make gcc use SSP and 
PIE by default, unless the "-
D__KERNEL__" option is given.  Is that right?

If so, that seems to me like an abuse of the -D option.  It would be better for 
you to remove the patch from 
gcc where it makes -D__KERNEL__ imply -nossp -nopie, and to instead patch the 
Linux kernel build system 
(Makefiles, etc.) so that it passes "-D__KERNEL__ -nossp -nopie" rather than 
"-D__KERNEL__".  While it would 
be possible to patch distcc to work around this, that doesn't seem like the 
best place to fix it.

You did understand everything right, yeah!

But after your statement I think that your way would be the better way. I had a 
closer look to the patches (http://git.ipfire.org/?
p=patches.git;a=tree;f=gcc;h=23ad0e6226cfc8a80419e69d2ef8fc9d6fccfbbd;hb=HEAD) 
and 
it would not be much to do to append -nopie to the gcc command line.

I thougt it would be interesting for some other hardened distributions (like 
gentoo 
hardened) to have that feature in distcc. That was my intention to ask here :D

Thanks for reply...
If it won't work, I will get back to you :D

Closing this issue with no changes to distcc; as discussed, Linux kernel build 
system is a better place to make 
the change.  (Feel free to reopen if you disagree.)