Use of laptop and workstation to compile

poi4QWE · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Hamburg

Hello,
i read in a interview with a kde developer that he uses his laptop in addition to his workstation to compile source. He wrote that his laptop helps with its cpu in compiling source.
I want to use my laptop cpu to be merged with my workstation cpu and then let it compile for example kde.
How can i do that?
Thanx for answeres!
Jan

fishhead · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

Distcc! It's prety darn useful. Aditionaly, you can use it when you use emerge. A search of the forums should probably tell you what you need to know.

Odin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 92

Just emerge distcc, if i remember correctly, it gives you directions in a message at the end of the install.

Basically, emerge distcc on all machines, /etc/init.d/distccd start on all the machines you wish to use, add the hosts using 'distcc-config --set-hosts="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (space seperated IPs) and add 'FEATURES="distcc"' to your make.conf.

poi4QWE · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Hamburg

i just tested distcc and it is very nice!
thx
jan