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This morning while setting up a cross compilation environment for my new netbook I was greeted with this lovely error message:

# port install distcc
...
gcc-4.0: -E, -S, -save-temps and -M options are not allowed with multiple -arch flags
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
make: *** [include-server] Error 1

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

After some short searching I found this conversation on the distcc mailing list

...
This is a tricky one to solve.  I think the right fix is to make gcc support
-M options even when multiple -arch flags are specified.
(gcc would need to produce several .d files and then merge them into a
single one.)

> I simply removed -MD from the CFLAGS in the Makefile.

Yes, that's what I did too.  That seems like a fine work-around in the mean
time.
I would be happy to accept a patch to make distcc do this automatically (or
even just a patch to the INSTALL file to describe the work-around).
...

So it seems as if this bug is with GCC and not with The MacPorts Project nor distcc. At this point, I believe the best intermediate solution is to simply patch the Makefile as mentioned on the mailing list.

Here's a shell script I wrote that integrates patching along with installation while retaining manageability through macports:

#!/bin/sh

makefile=/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/distcc/work/distcc-3.1/Makefile

if test -e $makefile; then # user has a half completed installation
   break
else # user has not previously attempted installation
  port configure distcc
fi

# if the makefile still does not exist there's a problem
if ! test -e $makefile; then echo "The makefile does not exist. Are you sure distcc isn't already installed?" && exit 1; fi

# patch makefile and install
echo "\e[1m--->  Patching Makefile\e[0m"
sed -i.bak -e 's/\-MD\ \-W/\-W/g' $makefile && port install distcc