Hi guys, It's been a little while since I last checked up on distcc's status so this might have been discussed and implemented already. Allow me to ask it anyway, feel free to redirect me to a FAQ of some sort.
The one missing feature from distcc that prevents me from making optimal use of it is a way to keep a dynamic list of hosts that are available. I can't hard-code a list because I don't always have the same machines available (either turned on, or they're not running distccd at certain times for one reason or another) so there's a high chance of distribution failures which slows things down. Last I checked distcc, it would only read from an environment variable which hosts to try as volunteer. I just noticed in the latest version it will also read files. That makes things easier, I could write a program that queries a list of potential volunteers every minute and checks if the distcc port is open. If not, remove that host name from the file distcc uses. Are there plans to build this into distccd that so it can maintain some file that the client reads. This won't work if distccd doesn't run on localhost, but I'm sure there's something else that can be done about that (something like running distccd locally as a discovery only, not accepting compile jobs). -- Gerard Beekmans http://www.linuxfromscratch.org http://www.beekmansworld.com // Linux Consultant --- OSDN / DevChannel // If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc