On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:59:02 -0400 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > distcc is, IMO, a bit more elegant than (for instance) trying to > > manually emerge binary packages for machine A on PC B. You can tell > > it to share the work or just unload it to the most powerful > > machine. There may be concerns about using a binary package if USE > > flags are different between the two machines, but distcc ensures > > that the package is built using those defined in make.conf of the > > machine on which you're running emerge. > > Yes! I was actually trying distcc today for the first time and got > it working from the perspective of my fastest computer, I got some > trouble though (see below). What you mentioned about running the > `emerge -uDN world` on each individual machines + sharing built > packages is absolutely awesome. Best of all worlds if i could say! >
Perhaps you have tried it already, but I didn't see it mentioned in this thread, so: for additional speed up of the compilation at the expense of disk space you may try ccache. ccache, gentoo.org: http://tinyurl.com/6o2ql ccache & distcc, gentoo-wiki.com: http://tinyurl.com/85ngj -- Best regards, Daniel
