[distcc] distcc and lint

[Martin Pool]

2009/10/6 Tom Holly <hollydt at gmail.com>:
> I am running distcc v3.1 from a Linux machine with Sun computers as the
> servers. Distcc is running with lint as its first step and I was wondering
> if it is necessary to send source files across the include server when lint
> is running. I am running from a NFS so every server has access to the same
> header files.

This might be new in distcc 3.x, but I didn't think that it could
actually distribute work for lint.

> Also, I wondered if I could run lint simultaneously with the
> compiler instead of one after the other. There hasn't been much in the
> forums about lint if anything at all. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Sure, but you need to do this in your makefile not in distcc.

Something like

all: myprogram lint

lint:
    lint *.c

will allow gmake to run them in parallel.

If you want to lint only the files being recompiled that's also
possible but a little more complex, probably you need the .o file to
depend on two rules.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>