[distcc] distcc-xfree-gentoo problems

Jon Portnoy avenj at gentoo.org
Fri Jun 27 04:25:15 GMT 2003


On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 04:08:37PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> In preparation for our distccd assisted gentoo installfest, I had a
> tester report to me that xfree4.3.0 did not appear to be using distcc
> when compiling on gentoo. Unfortunately he did not give much more detail. 
> 
> Does anyone know of any issues or tricks with distcc and xfree that I
> should be aware of?
> -- 

xfree does not allow for parallel builds, AFAIK - which makes distcc 
largely useless for building xfree.

(Our ebuild for it automatically turns off parallel building.)

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Jon Portnoy
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