[distcc] Compiling with distcc

[Martin Pool]

On 10 Jul 2006, James Stanley <jamesstanley at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> On Monday 10 July 2006 00:43, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On  9 Jul 2006, James Stanley <jamesstanley at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> > > Something like this?
> >
> > More like
> >
> >   distcc g++ -o file1.o file1.cpp [myparameters] &
> >   distcc g++ -o file2.o file2.cpp [myparameters] &
> >   distcc g++ -o file3.o file3.cpp [myparameters] &
> >   wait; wait; wait
> >   ld -o executable file1.o file2.o file3.o
> So that would do three compiles with distcc, then wait for them to finish, 
> then link them. Just out of interest, how does wait know which three 
> processes I want to wait for? The last three I started?

Yes.  See the shell manual.

-- 
Martin