[distcc] Bootable distcc node

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Dan Kegel wrote:

> daPlumber wrote:
> > Has anyone done any work on making an e.g. Knoppix bootable cd that makes a
> > distcc daemon and gcc available to the local LAN? This would be handy for
> > doing kernel/KDE/GNOME builds in an office full of Windows PC's for example.
> 
> No, but I'm putting together a hetrogenous cluster of
> Windows, Mac OS X, Linux x86, and Linux x86_64 boxes
> all running the same distcc'd compiler.  Why force
> people to reboot to Linux if you don't have to
> to get them into the compile cluster?
> I suspect it'd be easy to add Solaris machines to
> the build cluster, too.

> The trick is getting them all to run the same toolchain.
> I'll post the script I use once it's all working.

I'm very interested in packaging the toolchain and crosscompilers so 
people can deploy all that using RPM packages. It would be nice to only 
need 1 system for each architecture but still use the whole 
distcc-cluster.

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