Bug 79822

Summary:	using distcc for configure stage is slow
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Amiel Martin <martina3>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	radek
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Amiel Martin 2005-01-28 02:24:19 UTC

I think that it would be nice to have an option (features?), in which you could disable distcc for calls to econf. Because configure scripts compile lots of small files that are not being run by make, therefore compiling one file at a time redering distcc pointless and time consuming (we now have the bottleneck of network speeds with no other gain).

Comment 1 Micheal Marineau (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-05 15:30:04 UTC

The easiest way to do it is to just have localhost as the first machine in your distcc hosts list. that way all config stuff is sent to the local machine as normal.

Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-04-26 17:42:22 UTC

distcc doesn't do configure....it only does compiling...Configuring packages on machines that you aren't running it on would be useless...INVALID?

Comment 3 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-04-26 17:43:53 UTC

Er, you meant the compiling of the tests for configure, my bad ;)

Comment 4 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-10-24 14:21:15 UTC

Comment #1 is probably the solution here.  You could try modifying econf, but
then you'd miss any ebuild that doesn't use econf, which means you'd still have
problems on certain packages.