Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:54 AM, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-03 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-11-03 18:21, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-11-03 02:53, Kai Peter wrote: 2. the shell script have to do some checks, e.g. the last run - I did wrote a small 'include' script for that Isn't your 'small include script' just another implementation of run-crons? No.

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 04/11/17 04:45, Wol's lists wrote: > On 03/11/17 18:02, Rich Freeman wrote: >> My understanding is that the preprocessing is all done on the target >> machine, and the remote workers take all their marching orders from >> there.  The contents of CFLAGS, libraries, and so on don't matter on >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread Wol's lists
On 03/11/17 18:02, Rich Freeman wrote: My understanding is that the preprocessing is all done on the target machine, and the remote workers take all their marching orders from there. The contents of CFLAGS, libraries, and so on don't matter on the workers. You can build a program that requires

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Kai Peter wrote: > > *I* recommend fcron, it is a bit under estimated. Beside its progressive > design and w/o consulting the man page now again - AFAIR it can handle > DST issues like above through options in fcrontab. But with my concept

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Lasse Pouru wrote: > > 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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread Lasse Pouru
Wol's lists 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 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread Wol's lists
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

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-11-03 02:53, Kai Peter wrote: > 2. the shell script have to do some checks, e.g. the last run - I did > wrote a small 'include' script for that Isn't your 'small include script' just another implementation of run-crons? If not: how does it handle _missed_ jobs, if at all? If you want

[gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

2017-11-03 Thread Lasse Pouru
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