Bug 37938

Summary:	Get libtool to use distcc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Cook <foobarsoft>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) <lisa>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	base-system
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Michael Cook 2004-01-11 20:55:20 UTC

Is it possible to get libtool to use distcc? While setting up a new Gentoo box and using distcc so I could use my other computers to speed things up, I noticed that many things that take the longest to compile use libtool to do a large chunk of their compiling. By using libtool, distcc seems to be bypassed. I think fixing this would really improve people's expiriance with distcc.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Michael Cook 2004-01-12 16:09:30 UTC

OK, I've been looking at this harder and I'm not sure that libtool uses ccache either. I'm not sure what the correct way to fix this would be. It could be fixed by chaning the PATH that libtool sees so it will find distcc or ccache first, or it could be fixed by moving gcc and such and putting symlinks in their place. I'm starting to think that fixing this could put a huge dent in my compile times.

Comment 2 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-01 14:29:41 UTC

I think this is more of an upstream thing and not localized to Gentoo.  That said, I think you may have better luck submitting a request to GNU folks who maintain libtool.

Comment 3 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-02 01:18:55 UTC

In the most ideal case libtool would be rewritten. It has a number of deficiencies, not in the least the fact that it does not really work together with DESTDIR's and as such cannot really install in a location that is not the final destination.

Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-08 08:26:51 UTC

Hmm Paul, I would not say that.  Sure, we had to apply the relink patch ourselfs,
but it have eventually found its way into 1.5.

Comment 5 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-24 08:44:11 UTC

I'm going to mark this as upstream: There is absolutely no way I can rewrite libtool (and feature requests should be made upstream anyways).

If any of you base-system guys want this one feel free to reopen, reassign and add me to cc.