On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Lasse Pouru
<[email protected]> 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?
>
If you have a capable desktop PC you could cross compile for your
other computers. Your main desktop would do all the build work and
serve as a binhost. Distcc works brilliantly when it does work, but
there are occasional failures. Of course, only failures get seen on
this list.
Cheers,
R0b0t1
