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. See you there Marco -- 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
