Re: [gentoo-user] Does gcc not distribute with distcc?

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 01:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Michael Sullivan writes:
>
> > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> > > > Is this correct?  I have three fast machines, 192.168.1.2 through
> > > > 192.168.1.4 and a slow machine I want to distribute for at
> > > > 192.168.1.5. Here's /etc/conf.d/distccd on the slow one:
> > >
> > > I think this one's not necessary, you only need to run the daemon on
> > > the fast machines.
> >
> > If I'm not running distccd on the slow machine, how does it know to
> > distribute the load amongst the other three?
>
> Oh, you're probably missing the distcc-config command? Use this:
> distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3 192.168.1.4"
>
> distcc works with a wrapper. When gcc is called, in
> fact /usr/lib/distcc/bin/gcc is called (*), which distributes to the hosts
> defined in /etc/distcc/hosts. Which is set by distcc-config.
>
> (*) If ccache is installed (I hope!), another wrapper for gcc which is
> called even before distcc is /usr/lib/ccache/bin/gcc. If the input is not
> already cached, /usr/lib/distcc/bin/gcc is called.
>
> 	Alex

I ran 'which gcc' on the slow machine and this came back:

bullet portage # ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8232 Feb 10  2007 /usr/bin/gcc

Do I need to change this so that it points to /usr/lib/distcc/bin/gcc?

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