[distcc] distcc-xfree-gentoo problems

Martin Pool mbp at samba.org
Tue Jul 8 00:17:39 GMT 2003


On 28 Jun 2003, Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
> Thank you all for your clear and helpful responses. I do not
> undertsand C and makefiles are a mystery to me. I won't be able to
> contribute much to this effort :-(
> 
> I'm correct in saying that if we have a very slow machine to compile
> for, we leave it out of its own DISTCC_HOSTS list? ie omit "localhost"
> on a slow machine??
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Man its bad enuf running a normal linux installfest with mandrake, it
> gets to be a headache with trying to combine gentoo, distcc and the
> disorganisation/anarchy of your typical LUG lol.

You've probably done your installfest now, but I just wanted to point
out that you might like to use the gentoo buildpkg option to produce
binary packages that can be copied onto all the machines.  It seems a
waste to build everything many times over.

-- 
Martin 



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