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' source (rationale being: Debian is a reputable, mainline Linux distro, it's the distro I use on many of my older boxes, and I think any patches added by debian people will have been thoroughly vetted). The build was successful and I have got distcc on my new machine. But I'd like for others to have an easy route to installing it too. 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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
