On Sunday, 6 May 2018 11:18:40 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 03/05/18 16:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:58:44 BST Mick wrote:
> >> Is there anything I can do with the existing laptop and its limited
> >> resources to speed up chromium's emerge?
> > 
> > All I can suggest is to build a package in a chroot on a speedier machine
> > and transfer it to the laptop. That's how I cope with a very slow 32-bit
> > single- core Atom box.
> 
> Is distcc still there? I set that up ages ago, and when it was working
> it worked great. Trouble is, I think it got messed up in an emerge and I
> never set it up again.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol

Yes, it's still there - see below - although I've never used it.  For really 
slow PCs I emerge everything within a chroot on a fast PC and then rsync all 
binpkg over to the slow PC and emerge them locally.

 eix -l distcc
* sec-policy/selinux-distcc
     Available versions:  
       ~    2.20170204-r1
            2.20170204-r2
            2.20170204-r3
            2.20170204-r4
            2.20170805-r2
            2.20170805-r3
       ~    2.20170805-r4
            2.20180114-r1
       ~    2.20180114-r2
       **   9999
     Homepage:            https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:SELinux
     Description:         SELinux policy for distcc

* sys-devel/distcc
     Available versions:  
            3.1-r10   ^t        [avahi gtk hardened ipv6 selinux xinetd 
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"]     ["python_targets_python2_7"]
            3.2_rc1-r4 ^t       [crossdev gnome gssapi gtk hardened ipv6 
selinux 
xinetd zeroconf PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"]     ["python_targets_python2_7"]
       ~    3.2_rc1-r5 ^t       [gnome gssapi gtk hardened ipv6 selinux xinetd 
zeroconf PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"]    ["python_targets_python2_7"]
       [M]~ 3.3       ^t        [gnome gssapi gtk hardened ipv6 selinux xinetd 
zeroconf PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_5 
python3_6"]     ["^^ ( python_single_target_python3_5 
python_single_target_python3_6 ) python_single_target_python3_5? ( 
python_targets_python3_5 ) python_single_target_python3_6? ( 
python_targets_python3_6 )"] Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> (20 Mar 2018) 
Poorly tested version bump followed by a series of quick hacks that do not 
make it any more working. Bug #651030.
     Homepage:            http://distcc.org/
     Description:         Distribute compilation of C code across several 
machines on a network

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Regards,
Mick

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