On 2025-11-17 12:19, marco atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, 02:36 Soren via Cygwin, wrote:
Hello Cygwinstas,
I installed distcc from setup.exe awhile ago, although I didn't have a host
(what distcc docs call a 'volunteer') machine to share compilation. Now I
have such a machine (dropped over a grand on it with tax) and I have base
cygwin installed on it (+ some good stuff like binutils and gcc, you get
the picture). One of my main motivations for this acquisition was to
provide a powerful system to do distributed C compiling for Cygwin builds.
When I went to install distcc for the new machine, I couldn't find it.
Clearly distcc has been removed from the Cygwin collection, and I presume
that's because it was unmaintained for a long period of time.
I would really like to see distcc re-included in Cygwin. So much so that I
am going to offer to be its maintainer. I recently built distcc 3.4 from
Debian `sid'
So I said above that I'd be willing to maintain distcc. I've not been a
maintainer before so I will have to learn things. That's ok. One thing
would be a great help, I think: if someone has the cygwin cygtool'ed source
package for distcc in their /usr/src directory and could email it to me,
I'd have a running start. I'd really appreciate the effort, so, please take
a look folks if you've built distcc in the past.
Email obscured: somian08[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Ironically, I volunteered to maintain distcc in 2007 (I tripped over my own
message somewhere recently) but I never followed through on that. I tended
to overextend myself back in those days, but I think I am a tiny bit wiser
now.
- Soren Andersen
Hi Soren,
The proper cygwin mailing list for ITP is the cygwin-apps one.
Read documentation for packagers, look at cygport tool and join the
cygwin-apps list.
How to Teach a Maintainer to Fish for Cygwin Package Info
=========================================================
Search the Cygwin ML inboxes for package history:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin{-announce,-apps,-patches,}/?q=distcc
also look at the Cygwin Time Machine install info URIs:
https://cygwin.com/install.html#unsupported
and in this case you have to go back to W 2K/NT 5/XP SP2 Cygwin 1.7.18 CTM CTHFB
URI:
http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2013/06/04/121035
which is the last entry that shows distcc, where you can download
.../x86/setup.ini
which has the entry:
@ distcc
sdesc: "A fast, free, distributed C/C++ compiler"
ldesc: "A program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or
Objective C++ code across several machines on a network"
category: Devel
requires: popt
version: 2.18.3-1
install: release/distcc/distcc-2.18.3-1.tar.bz2 181098
c5b9509fb5dfd30d2d76d3846832d771
source: release/distcc/distcc-2.18.3-1-src.tar.bz2 350105
134a64b97ea4613bba3bf0a42fd61856
and points to the source package including distcc.cygport or g-b-s script from:
.../x86/release/distcc/distcc-2.18.3-1-src.tar.bz2
and read up on the Cygwin Time Machine to find out how to find more recent
setup.ini captures, contents, and tars.
As Cygwin is guided by Fedora policies, also look at Fedora 43, main, or rawhide
specs for build variables, scripts, and patches:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/distcc/blob/f43/f/distcc.spec
You can also request the packages repo maintainer to search for any history they
can restore or recreate for the package.
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
