Mladen Nikitovic wrote: > Hi, > > I have three machines that all run opensolaris. My intention is to compile > the source of a kernel and to distribute the compilation over these machines > to save time. > > As I understand it, in dmake you have a host (where you start the > compilation) and a number of build servers (where the compilation is > distributed). My concern is this: The host is somewhat different than the > build servers architecture-wise. Since I'm compiling kernel code I'm afraid > that some parts of the kernel code will look at the machine it is currently > compiling on and thus create a different result than if only the compilation > would only be done on a single machine (the host). Do you follow me? > > All machines use the sunstudio compiler with onbld. However, the host uses > b58 versions and the build servers uses b77. Can that be an issue when using > dmake? I hope that dmake is not that rigid that all build numbers must math > in order for it to work. > > dmake isn't the issue, distributed building of on is. Why don't you get hold of reasonably recent PC and stuff it full of RAM? The three machines you list are rather old and even combined, would take many hours to complete a build.
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