[distcc] How to correctly confirm if Distcc is setup correctly.

[Fergus Henderson]

Your makefile is not doing any actual C or C++ compilation. If you want to
test whether distcc is set up correctly, you need to actually compile
something.

On Mon, 10 May 2021, 12:33 anish anil via distcc, <distcc at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> I'm first time using distcc and have gone through the Readme.
>
> To setup I have three Ubuntu Servers: Master and Client:
>
> As per the readme it sound like we need to install them on all theree
> machines. which i have completed.
> https://github.com/distcc/distcc/blob/master/INSTALL
>
> Ran the command on all three servers:
>
> sudo apt-get install gcc make python3 python3-dev libiberty-dev
>
> ./autogen.sh ./configure make install
>
> They completed without any errors.
>
> Create ssh keys across the three machines and added then to the authorized
> host section. Did a ssh and confirmed they are able to login from the
> master to the Agent systems without any password
>
> Now from the Master Server i ran the below pointing two the two clients:
>
> Export DISTCC_POTENTIAL_HOSTS='localhost 172.31.33.11 172.31.37.109'
>
> Created a hello world make file:
>
>     #.DEFAULT_GOAL := generate
>     .PHONY: all say_hello generate clean
>
>     all: say_hello generate
>
>     say_hello:
>             @echo "Hello World"
>
>     generate:
>             @echo "Creating empty text files..."
>             touch file-{1..10}.txt
>
>     clean:
>             @echo "Cleaning up....."
>             rm -f *.txt
>
> Ran a build using the below command
>
>  make
>  Hello World
>  Creating empty text files...
>  touch file-{1..10}.txt
>  root at ip-172-31-24-96:/data/helloworls#
>
> So here it does look to have worked as expected.
>
> Ran the command as specified in the documentation:
>
> pump make -j40 CC="distcc gcc" --debug
> __________Using distcc-pump from /usr/local/bin
> __________Found 1 available distcc servers
> GNU Make 4.1
> Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> Copyright (C) 1988-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> Reading makefiles...
> Updating goal targets....
>  File 'all' does not exist.
>    File 'say_hello' does not exist.
>   Must remake target 'say_hello'.
>    File 'generate' does not exist.
>   Must remake target 'generate'.
> Hello World
> Creating empty text files...
> touch file-{1..10}.txt
>  File 'all' does not exist.
>  File 'all' does not exist.
> Must remake target 'all'.
> Successfully remade target file 'all'.
> __________Shutting down distcc-pump include server
> root at ip-172-31-24-96:/data/helloworls# ls
> Makefile  file-{1..10}.txt
> root at ip-172-31-24-96:/data/helloworls#
>
> Question:
>
> 1> How do we really know that the two client servers have been used during this build
> 2> Is setting the client servers same as that of the master, If no is there a difference
> 3> How do we see the UI distcc Monitor
> 4> How can i join a range of machines which does not have DistCC installed
>
> Thank you
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