distcc is available for gentoo. I have not tried it yet. If you do go with gentoo and then try distcc, let me know.
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:36:38 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just getting ready to go to bed and I remembered that I forgot... > :') > > I stumbled onto two really, really nice compiler tools today. One is > named CCACHE and the other is DISTCC. > > The first one (ccache) caches object files of previous compiler runs and > feeds them back if the current compiler run can use a cached object. > I've just tried it on a couple of compile runs with xfree86. It shaved > off about 10 minutes... The only catch is, the cache takes up a lot of > room... The advantage is, back to back compiles of source code can be > GREATLY speededup by using it. Now it won't be so painful to try > different ./configure tweaks of those large source code projects. > > The second one (DISTCC) is a really niffty project, one that will take a > bit of time for me to implement... distcc is a distributed compiler. In > reality it's a frontend to all the compilers you allow it to use. You > can compile a single project across several computers on a network... > This my, friends, is going to be the cats meow! Parallel processing with > a useful purpose. > > If anyone is interested, I'll post the url's tomorrow. Cheers and > goodnight. > > > -- > > *********************************************************************** > ******* > Registered Linux User Number 185956 > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux > Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net > This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing > html. > 10:21pm up 67 days, 3:55, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, > 0.00 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- +····························+·······························+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 · Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · +····························+·······························+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
