From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, DMARC_MISSING,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailnews.kub.nl (mailnews.kub.nl [137.56.0.220]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5199AABD50 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:39:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.sub.devrieze.net (gt0416.kub.nl [137.56.97.162]) by mailnews.kub.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g59Ed7vA025442 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:39:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pavlvs1.local.devrieze.net (pavlvs1.local.devrieze.net [192.168.1.1]) by mail.sub.devrieze.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E8B07751 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:39:02 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Distribuited build Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:38:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <3D03BB1C.8010405@seul.org> In-Reply-To: <3D03BB1C.8010405@seul.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200206091638.57868.pauldv@cs.kun.nl> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 84cc7390-a6ae-4d70-a3f6-b10778050192 X-Archives-Hash: 1bdd511f43323feea0a4c4e9662ec816 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=20 utilization of your computing power. Parallel dependencies are sometimes=20 difficult (cross dependencies), also it would require tweaks to emerge Paul --=20 Paul de Vrieze Junior Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net