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Re: distcc: gcc 4.6 on stable?



Ralf Jung wrote:
> I am trying to use a friend's machine as distcc daemon, since it has
> much more CPU power than my poor laptop. However distcc fails to
> compile stuff on his machine, which I assume is because I am using
> Debian testing and GCC 4.6, and he is on Debian stable and GCC 4.4

For distcc types of builds you should ensure that all of the build
systems have the same version of the tools.

> Is there a good way to get GCC 4.6 on his machine, preferably
> isolated from the rest of the system to be used by distcc only?

You could install in a chroot.  See the 'debootstrap' utility.

  http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap

Bob

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