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Old 03-09-2004, 11:40 PM   #1
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using distcc to compile


Hello. I had a question about distcc. I know its used to distribute the compiling of a program over different machines, but I tried setting it up and it doesn't seem to be working. I have 2 machines, a desktop (AMD XP 1700+ with 1gig ram With Gentoo 2004.0 kernel 2.6.3) and an older laptop (133 Pentium with 64mg ram With Slackware 9.0 kernel 2.4.20). I wanted to compile the linux-wlan-ng drivers for my laptop but it takes a VERY LONG TIME on this old machine. Can anyone help? Thanks everyone.
 
Old 03-10-2004, 02:37 PM   #2
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One important thing is that both computers have to be running the same version of GCC. Otherwise, things get very confused.

Anything more specific than that... well, you're going to need to describe what you've done, and what problems you're having in more detail.
Check the documentation that came with distcc, check tldp.org for a howto, do what you can, and then let us know if there are any errors.

--Rounan
 
Old 03-10-2004, 05:36 PM   #3
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On slackware I have gcc 3.2.2 and on Gentoo I have gcc 3.3.2. I would have to install gcc 3.3.2 on slackware, but compiling it would take forever on that machine. Could I do a seperate install of gcc 3.2.2 on Gentoo instead without having to get rid of 3.3.2? Everything on my pc has already been compiled with 3.3.2.
 
Old 03-10-2004, 08:33 PM   #4
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You should be able to install gcc 3.2.2 on Gentoo and keep gcc 3.3.2 as well.

The way I would do it is copy the gcc 3.2.2 ebuild to a new directory in /sys-dev/ called slack-gcc. Change the name of the gcc 3.2.2 ebuild to slack-gcc-3.2.2

Then edit the paths so it doesn't overwrite your other gcc version (maybe install it into /opt or something) and get ride of the stuff that would unmerge other gcc versions. Then setup distcc to use that.
 
  


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