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On Sunday 09 June 2002 22:31, Marko Mikulicic wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Do you all use only a single machine to build ? |
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> Does anyone use distributed build tools, like distcc or |
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> other tricks. |
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> While building a sigle package can be "upgraded" to |
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> distcc simply using the parallel make features and |
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> redirecting the compiler, it should be useful if entire ebuilds |
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> could be done in parallel. |
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> For example, when a package has two dependents they could |
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> be built in parallel. This would be specially useful for |
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> this packages wich doesn't build correctly with -j>1. |
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> I have a lot of unused ghz in my lan which could do lots of |
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> background jobs if they could be well distributed. |
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> I'm not thinking jet of a way to implement this (it should not |
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> be very difficult) but I'm interested to know what |
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> are the need, habits, testing methodology of the developers. |
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While I didn't test it yet, openmosix could be a solution for better |
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utilization of your computing power. Parallel dependencies are sometimes |
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difficult (cross dependencies), also it would require tweaks to emerge |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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