michael higgins wrote: > I have a couple of questions about using distcc. I have two machines. One is > significantly faster than the other, both x86 (pentium 2 and amd athlon-xp). > > I've followed the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml instructions for > configuring portage to use distcc. Should I need to continue with the > instructions for "working with automake"? >
Portage does this automatically as long as you have the corresponding FEATURES enabled. > Also, how do I tell the faster machine to just use it's own power and not > attempt to use the slower one? > When you run distcc-config --set-hosts on the faster machine you want to exclude the slower machine. > I tried so far, getting distccd running on both machines, each distcc-config > --set-hosts has one IP entry, that of the other machine. Is this right? > You may want to include localhost. > I ran distcc-gnome and saw no activity reported on the faster machine when > emerging something on the slower one. So, it would seem it's not working. > > Can anyone give me some hints? The manpage for distcc doesn't seem (to me) to > be much related to the gentoo how-to... '-) > > TIA, > #!/bin/bash source /etc/make.globals source /etc/make.conf export DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage/.distcc" exec /usr/bin/distccmon-gnome Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list