pbulk and distcc still broken?

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I've recently tried to use distcc with pbulk. Real life doesn't match 
documentation, though, and I wonder if anything has changed in the last 
two years:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2018/02/01/msg026211.html


If pbulk is run without distcc, then distcc is installed (regardless of 
what prefix is used to install it, or if it's even just added to the PATH 
without registering packages), then running any pbulk always fails with 
"don't know how to build /nonexistent" or something like that when it 
then tries to build distcc, even with IGNORE_DISTCC.

If pbulk is run with distcc in /etc/mk.conf & in the mk.conf fragment 
passed to pkgsrc/mk/pbulk/pbulk.sh, then running any pbulk always fails 
with:

Cyclic dependency for package:
distcc-3.3
popt-1.16nb2
digest-20190127
cwrappers-20180325

Does anyone know of any solution? Should I send-pr?

Thanks,
John Klos