[distcc] Doubt on masquerading ..

[Martin Pool]

2009/5/1 sarathy <sps.sarathy at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>  We have quite a few development machines in our swarm, and we use the
> masquerading way of compiling. From the distccd manual which states that if
> we are in masquerading mode, then the distccd server has to search its PATH
> for locating the real compiler. I do understand that distcc sends the
> compiler name and not the complete path to the server, since the volunteers
> might have the compiler installed in different locations. But, in our case,
> all the compilers are installed in the same location. So, is there a way to
> make distcc send the complete PATH to the remote distccd so that distccd
> doesn't end up searching the PATH for the compiler.

No, I don't think so.  I don't see why you'd want to either?

If the server is getting into a loop, just make sure the PATH is set
correctly (ie not including distcc) before starting distccd.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>