> Have you folks seen/tried this... > > <http://distcc.samba.org/> > > "distcc is a program to distribute compilation of > C or C++ code across several machines on a network. > distcc should always generate the same results as a > local compile, is simple to install and use, and is > often two or more times faster than a local compile. > > distcc does not require all machines to share a > filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the > same libraries or header files installed. Machines > can be running different operating systems, as long > as they have compatible binary formats or > cross-compilers." > > It even works (according to the docs) with ccache, > so it shouldn't recompile anything it doesn't need > too. > > Apparently it also compiles OOTB for cygwin, so if > no-one beats me to this I'll try and package it up > in the next few weeks.
distcc is great - I can compile KDE CVS in about 10 minutes total using 30 machines at college. OT, but do you think distcc could be run over the Internet? Imagine a huge distributed Cygwin compile farm across the world... Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
