I'm setting up my Power Mac FW800 as a little home server, and I decided to install some things. Of course, there are no prebuilt binaries for Leopard PPC so I end up compiling everything. A couple of days ago I started compiling some things, and in the meantime I read a bit on speeding up compilation. I found that there are projects for cross compiling binaries for OS X from a Linux host, and I also discovered the existence of ccache and distcc. This brings me to my questions:
Has anyone on this list used distcc with macports? Has anyone here used ccache with macports? Is it possible to use a new Mac in combination with distcc to compile things for Leopard PPC? I believe it should be possible for me to install the old version of Xcode in Mojave, thereby having access to the old SDK and compilers used in Leopard. If I could use my new iMac to assist in compiling things for my Power Macs, that could be a HUGE speed up (my iMac has a 9900k while my FW800 has two 1.42GHz G4 processors lol). Please share your thought and experiences if any of you have looked into similar things. Thanks! ~Chris
