Wol's lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > On 03/11/17 16:54, Lasse Pouru wrote: >> I have a bunch of old laptops that large builds such as texlive and >> ghc fail on, I'm assuming because of insufficient memory and disk >> space. If I've understood correctly, with Distcc I could build >> everything on my main desktop PC and have the binaries transferred >> through network? How does this work, exactly, and is it a lot of >> work to set up? I currently have no networking devices besides a >> single modem/router, would something more be required? >> > No. What distcc does is spread compilation across multiple machines to > save time, so if it blows up on those machine currently, there's no > guarantee it won't blow up with distcc. > > What I do is make sure my flags and stuff match across all machines, > then compile using the -bk flags (I can't remember which says "create > binary if it doesn't exist" and which is "use binary if it > exists"). That way, it builds on the machine that works, and uses the > binary on the machines that don't. > > Oh - and it's definitely possible you've got dodgy ram. I gather it's > not uncommon for ram to work perfectly until gcc stresses it on a big > build at which point everything comes crashing down ... > > Cheers, > Wol
So the flags would have to be the same on all machines? What about the CPU architecture? Isn't there a way to cross-compile for a 32-bit machine (with minimal flags) on a 64-bit machine, and specify which machine to do the compiling on?
