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


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