Distributed source code compiling

[ghenry]

Ever wanted to save yourself time when compiling things from source? Got some spare PC's to do the job? Why not get them to compile things for you.

Check out:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-distcc.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02Distcc

Looks very cool.

[ghenry]

Ever wanted to save yourself time when compiling things from source? Got some spare PC's to do the job? Why not get them to compile things for you.

Check out:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-distcc.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02Distcc

Looks very cool.

Just tried it. It is pretty amazing.

[ghenry]

Oh, another great tool to compliment distcc is ccach

http://ccache.samba.org/

This really speeds up your recompile times.

[Ug]

I've read about that before. I don't think adding a 450mhz to this 3 gig with hyper threading would make an awful lot of difference with compiling.

[ghenry]

You should try ccache though.

[Ug]

I haven't got a home network at the moment either. :p

[ghenry]

Spend some money then :)

[Ug]

I'm a poor student, I have no money. ;)

[ghenry]

I thought you were minted from all your articles?

[cybrjackle]

What does help is when your main box is a Dual Xeon and your helping a long older box's compile ;)

I use distcc all the time in Fedora and Gentoo (were i first heard it from)

[ghenry]

That doesn't surprise me that you used it first with Gentoo, as that's what they are all about.

P.S> Can you setup Gentoo to use distcc when installing, to send off the compiles to a REALLY fast server?

[cybrjackle]

Sure can,

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

4. Using Distcc to Bootstrap

It really does help out with the slower box's.

[ghenry]

I might give gentoo another shot then.