Re: [gentoo-dev] Distribuited build

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl>]

On Sunday 09 June 2002 22:31, Marko Mikulicic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Do you all use only a single machine to build ?
> Does anyone use distributed build tools, like distcc or
> other tricks.
>   While building a sigle package can be "upgraded" to
> distcc simply using the parallel make features and
> redirecting the compiler, it should be useful if entire ebuilds
> could be done in parallel.
>   For example, when a package has two dependents they could
> be built in parallel. This would be specially useful for
> this packages wich doesn't build correctly with -j>1.
>
> I have a lot of unused ghz in my lan which could do lots of
> background jobs if they could be well distributed.
>   I'm not thinking jet of a way to implement this (it should not
> be very difficult) but I'm interested to know what
> are the need, habits, testing methodology of the developers.
>

While I didn't test it yet, openmosix could be a solution for better 
utilization of your computing power. Parallel dependencies are sometimes 
difficult (cross dependencies), also it would require tweaks to emerge

Paul

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