[distcc] Cygwin hosted distcc toolchain (updated)

[Rob Snow]

Hmm, maybe that wasn't clear as I thought it was...it was a bit late
when I wrote it :)

The .bz2 is a tar of a full toolchain that runs on Cygwin and creates
i686-linux binaries.  The script just automates typing in a cygrunsrv
for people who haven't used it before.

What it does is take any PC with a base Cygwin install and creates a
distcc host out of it with the mentioned toolchain.

Since I run Gentoo I use it to leverage the extra processing power of
the XP machines sitting around doing nothing.

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo at msu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:39 PM
To: Rob Snow
Cc: distcc at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [distcc] Cygwin hosted distcc toolchain (updated)

Rob,

Rob Snow wrote:
> I realized that I hadn't sent an email to the list that I've updated
my Cygwin
> distcc toolchain, so here it is.  It's built for Gentoo-Stable,
however, it
> -might- work other places...but I can't be sure.

I maintain the distcc package for Cygwin.

> The tarball is right at 27MB and can be found at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.dympna.com/pub/cross-linux-122403-stripped.tar.bz2
> 
> Toolchain contains:
> 
> binutils-2.14.90.0.6
> glibc-2.3.2
> gcc-3.2.3 (from -r3)
> distcc-2.11.1

Looks like what you've got is a cross-compiler toolchain that runs on 
Linux and builds for Cygwin, right?

But then... what do we have here:

> There is a miniscule README that tells you it get's untarred into /usr
and
> actually lives in /usr/local/gnu-<blah-blah-blah>.  There is also a
short
> script created in /usr/local/bin to setup distcc as a service if you
have
> cygrunsrv isntalled in your Cygwin.

Are you saying that there is a *also* a script in that package that is 
intended to be used on Cygwin?  If so, it might be a good idea to add 
that script to my distcc package for Cygwin.  I had just been thinking 
about creating such a script and it would be great if you have already 
done so.

Let me know if I misunderstood what you have got in your package.

Harold