Re: distcc: gcc 4.6 on stable?
Hi,
we went with a VM, however it turned out the network connection is a
bottleneck - as it seems, distcc can only be used properly in a LAN, not
through the internet.
Kind regards,
Ralf
On Wednesday 05 October 2011 18:15:59 Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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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