[distcc] [PATCH] retry compiling when remote gcc was killed by signal

[Daniel Kegel]

Eric Frias wrote:
>>A few people have talked about adapting distcc to the native Windows
>>API but I don't know if there is a finished patch.
> 
> 
> That would be nice, but I don't think I'd notice much of a difference.  
> It's the cygwin-hosted gcc cross-compiler (cc1plus.exe, I think) process 
> that consumes so much memory.  I guess I might be able to make a 
> cross-compiler under mingw instead of cygwin, but it was hard enough to 
> get going under cygwin that I'm not too anxious to try.

FWIW, http://kegel.com/crosstool has out-of-the-box support for
running distcc and gcc under cygwin, MacOSX, and Linux.

I'm looking forward to the mingw version of gcc, I recall
someone was working on a patch, don't know the status.
- Dan