Trouble is, this computer is just a pile of components sitting on the floor, and it's using my other monitor, which I really want back (since I've spoiled myself with dual monitors). Compiling X and GNOME might give me a speed boost over the x86 binaries, but it's gonna take a long time on that old hardware, and I don't want to leave it exposed to myself, dust, falling water bottles, a cat and the countless objects I throw across the room into the garbage can. Plus I'm impatient.
So distcc sounds perfect for my situation! I've got three computers, counting the new one, connected to each other via a 10 Mbps switch. One's my Windows box (P4C 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB swap). The Windows box has to stay in Windows XP (SP2) to give all computers Internet access (the Wi-Fi adapter is a "Win-NIC"). I've heard there are Linux distros that run on top of Windows (or there's always Cygwin); would this work?
My Mac has a PowerPC 604e, 195 MHz, 256 MB of RAM. This one I can either run Linux on Mac OS 9.2.2, or reboot it into Linux. I haven't downloaded my 2005.0 PPC Universal LiveCD yet, so Gentoo's not an option (PPC 2004.3 won't find my hard drive). How/can I get distcc running on this one?
And if you're curious, here's what I'm using:
Gentoo (2004.3 LiveCD, 2005.0 stages, April 1, 2005 Portage tree)
Linux kernel 2.6
CHOST = "i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS = CXXFLAGS = "-march=pentium-mmx -mcpu=i586 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
MAKEOPTS="-j2" # will change if distcc will work (+2 for Windows box, +1 for Mac)
USE = "x86 mmx -sse -3dnow -altivec" # There's a LOT more, but this is the important stuff, I think
Thanks in advance.
-- Colin
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