[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >one idea might be to standardise the distcc daemon machines byu using >knoppix. There is a specific knoppix variant which has distcc I >believe.
I have the latest Knoppix installed on my hard drive and it certainly have distcc. I would imagine it's there on the live boot cd as well. > >On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:08:27+1200 Christopher >Sawtell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:00, you wrote: >> > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:56:40 +1200 >> > >> > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:47, you wrote: >> > > > Yeah... everyone should have a NIC, and any machine that is not >> > > > currently installing should be compiling for others (it can do >> > > > this no matter what distro it's currently running, can't it?). >> > > >> > > I would not like to guarantee the results if the C compilers and >> > > libraries were not the same throughout the cluster. Please correct >> > > me if I'm wrong. >> > >> > apparently not. from http://distcc.samba.org/ >> > >> > "distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have >> > synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files >> > installed. Machines can be running different operating systems, as >> > long as they have compatible binary formats or cross-compilers. >> >> Well I suppose it all depends on which part of the docos is correct. >> :-) Quoting:- >> http://distcc.samba.org/faq.html#mixed-gcc >> >> Different gcc versions? >> >> if the host machine is using gcc 3.2, can the other machines use an >> older version of gcc ? 2.9.x for example ? >> distcc doesn't care. However, in some circumstances, particularly for >> C++, >> gcc object files compiled with one version of gcc are not compatible >> with those compiled by another. This is true even if they are built on >> the same machine. >> >> It is usually best to make sure that every compiler name maps to a >> reasonably similar version on every machine. You can either make sure >> that gcc is the same everywhere, or use a version-qualified compiler >> name, such as gcc-3.2 or i386-redhat-linux-gcc-3.2.2. >> >> Which seems to make good sense to me. >> So all the helpers / installer need to have the same version of gcc. >> The 'gcc --version' command tels me I have the current one for Gentoo, >> it is "gcc (GCC) 3.2.2" >> >> I would therefore be, imho, a very good idea it all the machines used >> in the cluster had that version installed. >> >> -- >> C. S. >> >> > > >-- ------------------------------------------------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------
