Re: [gentoo-user] compiling via distcc

2015-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 21 February 2015 09:48:29 I wrote: > I forget the details now... I've remembered one thing: the small machine acts as squid proxy and http-replicator host for the others on the LAN, so its /etc directory has to differ in several places. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling via distcc

2015-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 February 2015 06:51:49 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Another approach will be to use one powerful box to build all > packages for an older system: either root filesystem may be > exported via NFS to a powerful host or just copy entire disk image > to and fro that host; afterwards just set

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling via distcc

2015-02-20 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:19:22 -0600 Jeff Smelser wrote: > People do it all the time. You have to set up the amd64's to cross compile. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc/Cross-Compiling One doesn't need to setup cross-compilation in order to generate x86 code on amd64 systems: 64-bit amd64 gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling via distcc

2015-02-11 Thread Jeff Smelser
People do it all the time. You have to set up the amd64's to cross compile. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc/Cross-Compiling On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Joseph wrote: > I have an old eeepc 1GB ram and would like to install Gentoo on it as > Xubuntu and Fedora both failed providing the p

[gentoo-user] compiling via distcc

2015-02-11 Thread Joseph
I have an old eeepc 1GB ram and would like to install Gentoo on it as Xubuntu and Fedora both failed providing the programs I need. Since the eeepc is VERY slow, is it possible to setup "distcc" to do complete compiling on a faster machine. (eeepc is x86, my faster boxes are amd64). -- Joseph