compile farm distro

[Brian Kelsay]

David Holland wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Brian Kelsay [mailto:] 

>>Subject: compile farm distro
>>
> 
> ... 
> Distcc:  http://distcc.samba.org/
> ...
> 
> Is there a win32 version of something like this?  I've been trying to
> install Gentoo + KDE on my 550MHz notebook and 'emerge kde' has taken
> over 30 hours.  I finally had to abort the emerge and when I restarted
> it keeps failing.  I checked Gentoo forums and found emerge -e kde.
> This will emerge over 120 packages which will probably take several days
> on a 550.  If there is anyway I could put my win2k server to work
> compiling KDE I'd love to try it.  Any advice is welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
>     David

I recall reading that you could do the compiling on Windows, but you 
could not use the cool bootable CD.  Another poster mentions Cygwin on 
Windows as the way, but there may be another.

I quote:

distcc is developed on GNU/Linux, but has been reported to work on other 
systems including FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX and Cygwin.

distcc sends the complete preprocessed source code across the network 
for each job, so all it requires of the volunteer machines is that they 
be running the distccd daemon, and that they have an appropriate 
compiler installed.

distcc is not itself a compiler, but rather a front-end to the Gnu C/C++ 
compiler (gcc).