Re: [gentoo-user] emerging with distcc: What's taking so long?

Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:42PM +0100, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
>
> > P.S.: distccmon is a good tool to watch the compilation processes.
>
> I never got it to display anything. I just tried it again: synced
> portage and ran a world update -- 16 Packages, among them
> kdevplatform, a lengthy Qt package (which by the way is one of those
> who benefit greatly from compression if distcc’ed over a slow
> network).
>
> At no time during building did I see any activity in distccmon-gui. I
> started it on both client and server and as my own user as well as
> root. Nada. Can you give a suggestion? Thanks.
>

I remembered something:

It is important to use the same value for the DISTCC_DIR environment 
variable as the user running the client and that this directory is 
readable by the user that is running distccmon. 

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Regards
wabe