Thank you for the explanation. I have a shared directory, each 'node' puts in a file with its IP-address the gcc-versions it supports (on different ports). If you want to compile, you can grep in that directory for the used gcc-version and receive the IP-addresses and ports.
This worked well with linux 'nodes', but with Windows/Cygwin I had problems because the startup process had permission problems and could not write to that directory. But I believe this can be fixed. Can you give me a hint, how you trigger an action (the sending of a message in your case, deleting the file in mine) if the host goes down? You mentioned that you might use the filtering. Though I believe that you are capable of implementing the idea in your own way, I just want to post an update that uses the process ID to make it more multi-user-environment-friendly. Tobias # # Sorts DISTCC_HOSTS according to speed # # Usage "source distcc-hostsort" # # First Version: 17.01.05 (polzin_spamprotect_ at gmx dot de) # # $Id: distcc-hostsort,v 1.8 2005/08/24 13:37:52 tobias Exp $ tmplog=/tmp/dummy.$$.log tmpfile=/tmp/dummy.$$.cpp #subshell to preserve as much environment as possible ( cat > $tmpfile <<! #include <iostream> int main() { std::cout << "hello distcc\n"; } ! oldhosts="$DISTCC_HOSTS" export TIMEFORMAT=%R rm -f $tmplog echo $oldhosts for host in $oldhosts do echo "$host" " start" ( DISTCC_HOSTS="$host"; # using localhost is not wanted export DISTCC_FALLBACK=0 t=` ( time distcc gcc $tmpfile -c -o /dev/null) 2>&1 ` echo -n $host " --- " $t # no floating point in scrips if [[ ${t%.*} -lt 6 ]]; then echo $t $host >> $tmplog echo else echo " [too slow -> skipped]" fi )& done echo waiting for subtasks # jobs wait ) echo ready DISTCC_HOSTS=` sort -n $tmplog | awk '{ print $2; }' ` echo DISTCC_HOSTS=$DISTCC_HOSTS count=` wc -l $tmplog | sed -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@"` MAKEFLAGS=`echo "$MAKEFLAGS" | sed -e "s/-j[0-9]*/-j$count/"` echo MAKEFLAGS=$MAKEFLAGS #clean up, as this file has to be sourced rm -f $tmplog rm -f $tmpfile unset count unset tmplog unset tmpfile __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc