distcc question [solved/answered]

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slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:35 am

I'm installing gentoo on an old Pentium MMX to be my LAN's print server. Since the thing is so goddamn slow at compiling I looked into using distcc and let some of the load go to my gentoo box that's running on an athlon xp. So to do this I've got distccd running on the athlon xp box.

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

Recent Portage updates have made Portage use ${CHOST}-gcc instead of gcc. This means that if you're mixing i686 machines with other types (i386, i586) you will run into problems. A workaround for this may be to export CC='gcc' CXX='c++' or to put it in /etc/make.conf, but that needs testing. If it works for you please email me, Lisa Seelye.

My question is:
Does this need to be done on the server (the one running the daemon), the client (the old box), or both?

klavrynd · Post by **klavrynd** » Sat May 14, 2005 10:17 am

afaik on the old box. Instead of using ${CHOST}-gcc it should be using /var/lib/distcc/bin which distributes the compiling across your other boxes

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Sat May 14, 2005 5:23 pm

Yeah I figured that out earlier; though it doesn't matter as I'm doing a complete install on the old box so it doesn't have the same gcc version as the new one.

And even if I set it to use CC="gcc" the version is different between the 2 boxes and that'll make problems.

Kazaza · Post by **Kazaza** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:11 pm

If the gcc-versions differs, you can always upgrade the version of gcc used for bootstrapping.... and maybe still be able to use distcc... (im doing such a install right now on a k6 laptop....)
check this thread out, and you get the idea of how to get it done...
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-26 ... thlon.html