[distcc] a question about distcc, if who knows, please tell me, thanks a lot!

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Tue Mar 14 12:21:19 GMT 2006


Alvin Li wrote:
>        I want to know how does distcc deal with the error message
> happened when compile the complete preprocessed source code on other
> machine.

It sends it back to the client process, which sends it to stderr, just
as a regular compiler would.  So it comes up in your
terminal/IDE/log/whatever.

>        And how does distcc send the error messages back to the local
> machine or use other methods to display the error messages on the local
> machine?

It sends them in a field within the distcc network protocol.

-- 
Martin


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