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Neil Bothwick writes: |
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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most |
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> > > from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic |
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> > > boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to |
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> > > start cross-compiling. |
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> > I've often used distcc between amd64 and x86 machines, for example, and |
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> > had no problems (except that not enough is "farmed out"). |
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Uh, really? I thought I had to setup cross compiling for that. Cool, I can |
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skip that then. You just saved me a lot of trouble, thanks. |
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> AFAIR the OOo build won't use distcc. It used to take up to 16 hours on |
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> my iBook, with no bin package available. Now it takes 3-4 hours, so runs |
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> while I sleep. The binary version clashes too much with KDE. |
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Looking at the ebuild is seems that it disables paralles makes, unless |
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environment variable WANT_MP is set to true. |
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So, I think distcc should work, using the first of the hosts given with |
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distcc-config --set-hosts. |
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Wonko |
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