Hi, we went with a VM, however it turned out the network connection is a bottleneck - as it seems, distcc can only be used properly in a LAN, not through the internet.
Kind regards, Ralf On Wednesday 05 October 2011 18:15:59 Bob Proulx wrote: > Ralf Jung wrote: > > I am trying to use a friend's machine as distcc daemon, since it has > > much more CPU power than my poor laptop. However distcc fails to > > compile stuff on his machine, which I assume is because I am using > > Debian testing and GCC 4.6, and he is on Debian stable and GCC 4.4 > > For distcc types of builds you should ensure that all of the build > systems have the same version of the tools. > > > Is there a good way to get GCC 4.6 on his machine, preferably > > isolated from the rest of the system to be used by distcc only? > > You could install in a chroot. See the 'debootstrap' utility. > > http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap > > Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110061137.03494.ralfjun...@gmx.de