On Wed, 28 May 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > I have Gentoo on 3 of my machines, so far. Two are Athlon machines, the > > other is a PPC. The PPC box is only 120 MHz, so I want to use distcc. > > Has anyone set up distcc cross-platform under Gentoo? > > Has nobody here ever done this? I already have a cross-compiler manually set > up on one of the Athlon Gentoo boxes. Is there something I can change in my > /etc/make.conf on the PPC box so that 'powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc' is run on > the Athlon box instead of just 'gcc'? > I've looked around in the forums. They're introducing support into portage to > build cross-platform toolchains, but there was really no mention on how to use > them with distcc. > I've gotten through the bootstrap and 'emerge system' in a day and a half on > the PPC box, but I'm scared to think how long it will take to compile X without > distcc... >
Hmmm... interesting! I think your problem lies in the fact that you only have x86-PPC enabled gcc on the one machine. I don't think this will work.. you need to have all 3 machines set up with the cross compiler. This makes logical sense to me and is confirmed by a statement on http://distcc.samba.org/ as follows: "distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files installed. Machines can be running different operating systems, as long as they have compatible binary formats or cross-compilers. " the last line is the catcher and unless I'm reading it wrong it adds credence to my theory ;-)! Hope this helps. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
