[distcc] Distcc & Portage

[Brad Cowan]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:12:07 -0600
"Kevin N. Carpenter" <kevinc at seaplace.org> wrote:

> Hi all, please forgive is this is frequently asked, but I didn't spot 
> anything in the archives.
> 
> Anyhow, I'm trying to use Distcc with Gentoo 1.4rc3 (GCC 3.2.1) and 
> having mixed results.  It does wonderful things with trivial tweaks to 
> the /usr/src/linux/Makefile.  I'm seeing kernel compiles in less than 
> half the time now.
> 
> I'd love to be able to use this with Portage emerge's however - where my 
> systems speed a lot more time.
> 
> Unfortunetly, few emerges run to completion before they die.  This 
> occurs when I change my /etc/make.conf to use MAKEOPTS="-j10 CC=distcc", 
> or play games like putting a wrapper script in /bin called gcc... (which 
> I believe would be a nice general way to have all compiles use distcc).
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kevin N. Carpenter
> 
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Hi,

  I have been in charge of the distcc package in portage for a few months now. Please check out:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13897

As this wrapper being worked on and written in C will help solve ALOT or your problems, and will allow almost any package that uses -j to be distributed :)

Regards

-- 
Brad Cowan <bcowan at gentoo.org>
Developer,
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