On 03/11/17 18:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
My understanding is that the preprocessing is all done on the target machine, and the remote workers take all their marching orders from there. The contents of CFLAGS, libraries, and so on don't matter on the workers. You can build a program that requires qt using distcc workers that don't have qt installed, because all the includes are already resolved by the time the source code reaches them and linking is done later.
Yup. If you're cross-compiling (like I was - a mix of 32 and 64 bit), provided all machines are set up correctly it works fine. BUT. That's if the "master" is compiling for itself and just sharing out the work.
But if all the machines are similar architecture (like mine are now all x86_64) you can do what I do - the fastest machine builds everything and makes binary install files, and the slower machines just install the binaries. (Or actually, the slower machine builds everything, because the faster machine has a habit of falling over during builds :-(
Cheers, Wol
