* Re: [gentoo-dev] Distribuited build
@ 2002-06-09 14:38 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2002-06-09 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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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