[distcc] Bootable distcc node

[Daniel Kegel]

Dag Wieers 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.

OK, but note that the RPMs will be useless on the non-linux boxes,
which are kinda the whole point... it probably wouldn't be too
hard to build cygwin, fink, and/or solaris packages for this too, which would
give you the equivalent ease-of-use...
- Dan