Bug 9013 – some packages fail to build with distcc

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Mark 2002-10-11 05:47:55 UTC]

I have installed distcc but apparantly mozilla will not build with that. I
suggest defining CC and CXX in the ebuild. I realise there are plenty of ways to
work around distcc but it would be even better if the mozilla ebuild would
handle it.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-10-11 17:18:11 UTC]

this can be applied to more than just mozilla 

[Comment 2 Brad Cowan (RETIRED) 2002-10-11 19:30:55 UTC]

I have been keeping up with distcc for quite some time and have distcc setup
across 4 machines. As a matter of fact I just built mozilla 1.1 yesterday and
had 3 machines maxed at 100% using distcc. Are u using distcc-0.12? and u will
get much better results if u use CC="ccache distcc gcc" and CXX="ccache distcc g++"
If your having problems with getting the pre-processed code passing to the
client machines try adding them twice to DISTCC_HOSTS and adding localhost last.
Anyway just emerged a fresh system with distcc across 2 XP1800 machines, and a
1.2 athlon with -j10  without a ccache in 37 mins with no hiccups :)

[Comment 3 Mark 2002-10-12 03:50:31 UTC]

I just found out it actually does compile with distcc. Thanks for the extra help
Brad, it was really appreciated. :)