Thank you all for your clear and helpful responses. I do not undertsand C and makefiles are a mystery to me. I won't be able to contribute much to this effort :-(
I'm correct in saying that if we have a very slow machine to compile for, we leave it out of its own DISTCC_HOSTS list? ie omit "localhost" on a slow machine?? Thanks. Man its bad enuf running a normal linux installfest with mandrake, it gets to be a headache with trying to combine gentoo, distcc and the disorganisation/anarchy of your typical LUG lol. On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:58:09+1000 Martin Pool<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27 Jun 2003, Jon Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:08:37PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > > In preparation for our distccd assisted gentoo installfest, I had > > > a tester report to me that xfree4.3.0 did not appear to be using > > > distcc when compiling on gentoo. Unfortunately he did not give > > > much more detail. > > > > > > Does anyone know of any issues or tricks with distcc and xfree > > > that I should be aware of? > > > > xfree does not allow for parallel builds, AFAIK - which makes distcc > > largely useless for building xfree. > > Well, distcc can still be useful if you're installing onto a slow > machine. Even without parallelism it can pay off to shift > compilations from say a 700MHz machine to a 2GHz one. (Or maybe not, > it depends on the tree, network, etc.) > > -- > Martin > > -- __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
