On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:00:07 +0000, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) growled: > Andrew Farmer, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > >> If I remember correctly, distcc requires that all systems be the same >> architecture and have all the same include files available. [...] > > I know something diferent. DistCC sends preprocesed files (.i) and > assembler files (.s), so it is not needed to have the include files. > Just need to send that files, asemble it and re-send an object file. > Here is where the crosscompiling plays... You can compile code for sparc > in an ppc and viceversa.. :)
Quite so. As it says at their home page http://distcc.samba.org/ "distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files installed. They can even have different processors or operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed." However there are some perils if you are running significantly different releases of GCC. See http://distcc.samba.org/faq.html#mixed-gcc I've been making good use of distcc across three PCs on our network while I've been building up my first Gentoo box. It's saved a lot of time. -- Paul Oldham ----------> http://the-hug.org/paul Milton villager ------> http://www.miltonvillage.org.uk/ and FAQ maintainer ---> http://the-hug.org/paul/camfaq.html "Hipatitis: Terminal coolness" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
