[distcc] Re: detecting architecture of DISTCC HOSTS ?

[Andrew Gaffney]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> See this patch, also on 
> 
>   http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/public/software/distcc-substitute.patch
> 
> For example
> 
>   DISTCC_SUBSTITUTE_GXX='i686-linux-g++' distcc
> 
> will remotely invoke i686-linux-g++ when g++ is run locally.
> 
> This is useful as cross-building some packages require both a native
> gcc and a cross-compiling gcc to be present.  Setting
> DISTCC_SUBSTITUTE_GCC= allows the native compiler invocations to be
> distcc'd to different machine types as well.

I came up with a method for doing cross-compiling with distcc in Gentoo. It can 
be used in other distributions easily enough. It just involves a simple wrapper 
script and a few symlinks in /usr/lib/distcc/bin. Basically, it takes calls to 
the "short" compiler names and translates them into calls to the "full" compiler 
name, so that there is no ambiguity on the helper box when the job is distributed.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer                                   Installer Project