[distcc] Can't get distcc working properly, help!

[Luke Guest]

Hi,

I've been trying to set up distcc at work, I gave it a go with 2.0.1 a while
ago and took a day or two and got nowhere. I just spent last night and this
morning and I've got *somewhere*.

Basically, I need to setup a bunch of Linux boxes to use distcc for normal
and cross development. I have a makefile which you can select between the
two compilers, gcc/gc++ & ee-gcc/ee-g++.

1) I can build the Linux kernel, distributed over the two machines.
2) I can build for Linux our project over the two machines, if  I take the
dependency generation (ripped from the make manual).
3) I cannot build for PS2, error 110, distcc can never find the compilers.

I have set up distcc as a xinetd service on these two machines and that is
working fine, see 1 & 2. I've tried setting the PATH to include my compilers
in /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/profile (they are setup in a script inside
/etc/profile.d, but that doesn't make a difference). So really, the question
is, where do I put the path to these compilers so that distcc will work?

Another question, how does that masquerading work? What does distcc spawn by
default? gcc? My makefiles use the "distcc <platform compiler>" invocation
and I don't want to change it to use the masquerading feature, because I
can't see how it would work.

Thanks,
Luke.