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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:29:10
Message-Id: 200802151729.03761.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick writes:
2
3 > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
4 > > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most
5 > > > from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic
6 > > > boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to
7 > > > start cross-compiling.
8 > >
9 > > I've often used distcc between amd64 and x86 machines, for example, and
10 > > had no problems (except that not enough is "farmed out").
11
12 Uh, really? I thought I had to setup cross compiling for that. Cool, I can
13 skip that then. You just saved me a lot of trouble, thanks.
14
15 > AFAIR the OOo build won't use distcc. It used to take up to 16 hours on
16 > my iBook, with no bin package available. Now it takes 3-4 hours, so runs
17 > while I sleep. The binary version clashes too much with KDE.
18
19 Looking at the ebuild is seems that it disables paralles makes, unless
20 environment variable WANT_MP is set to true.
21 So, I think distcc should work, using the first of the hosts given with
22 distcc-config --set-hosts.
23
24 Wonko
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>