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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 1:40 pm    Post subject: Bad experiences with distcc and ccache Reply with quote

Hi! I use two Ultra 10s in a university lab, on one of them I have gentoo, being the only administrator, but the other unfortunately runs Debian, and I have shared root access. I tried to speed up my compiles on the gentoo box by installing distcc on both. Compilation worked, but when the gentoo box tried to link the object files together it stopped with an error. Is it because of this?
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$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20040217 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.3, propolice-3.3-7)

and

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 (Debian)

So I unmerged distcc and tried ccache instead... well not much luck there either... Debian was not interfearing and still emerge failed. Anyone having more luck with these apps?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's possible that your error is the result of using distcc with mixed versions of GCC. Typically it is recommended that you have the same major version of GCC on each box (i.e. 3.3).

If you've removed distcc and the problem still exists, it may be an actual bug. What application are you testing with?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The problem is that I don't remember now exactly which ebuild I tried with ccache, because I was very disappointed after distcc didn't work this didn't work either. At the time I instantly unmerged ccache and installed that application... Now I reemerged it, to see if it happens again. If there is a portage history somewhere I might determine which package it was. I suspected mutt, reemerged it today, but it worked fine. I'll be watching...
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can find the emerge log file at /var/log/emerge.log
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ebuild that didn't compile was cups, but now it works. I hope that problem was caused by something else, and ccache will work as expected from now on. I surely could use any compile time improvement, since I only have 64MB of RAM and a very slow 4 GB HDD. :(
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