Re: [gentoo-dev] Patch for absolute minimal GCC for distcc environment

[Andrew de Quincey]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 11:35, Stuart Longland wrote:
> Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:10, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> >>>Hi, I hope this is the correct place to send this.
> >>>
> >>>I have setup distcc in my network. Most of the hosts are i686, but one
> >>> of them is x86_64. I wish to distribute tasks to the i686 machines from
> >>> the x86_64 machine. This involves installing a cross compiler on the
> >>> i686 machines for x86_64 tasks. Crossdev is overkill for this - I don't
> >>> actually _need_ glibc and the like on the client machines for a simple
> >>> distcc environment. It really adds to the upgrade time when emerge
> >>> sync; emerge worlding.
> >>
> >>crossdev -s1 -t <x86_64 CHOST>
> >
> > According to the docs, that doesn't compile a c++ compiler:
> >
> >     -s1, --stage1         Build a C compiler (no libc/C++)
>
> And guess what... no libc... no c++.  If you require a C++ compiler,
> then might I suggest making a µClibc-based toolchain?  µClibc is just a
> little smaller than it's GNU cousin, and so shouldn't occupy much space.

I have it running right now with *no* libc and g++. There is no reason to need 
a libc, apart from the fact that you cannot confiure g++ to build without 
patching it. I have just distcc compiled kdlibs with this configuration. 

Have you actually tried the patch? This is precisely what it does - g++ with 
no libc.

The files installed with the patch are in the attached file. I could perhaps 
trim it more - there is no need for the include files either with distcc.