Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Hey all,

I just fixed a few packages which failed on my new install of my laptop using
distcc, so I fixed them to not. Then some more started failing, and I got to
wondering, did no one else have these problems? Then I realized what I was
doing, my laptop is a Pentium III, the other two machines I have it sending
distcc requests to are an Athlon Thunderbird and an Athlon XP. Could this be
what's causing errors that setting DISTCC_HOSTS= in DETAILS fixes? Is this
something we should worry about, or just tell people to use the same chipsets
when using distcc? Most of the packages (most of xfce4-profile, dependencies 
of
qt-x11, a few gnome2-libs) compiled fine, but some did not. Should we be
turning distcc off for any package that fails to compile on systems with
different CPUs? 

I'd say "yes", just to keep things simple and working, but a better fix would 
be
to have our gcc be a cross-compiler and we tell people to have gcc compiled 
for
all architectures they have on their network if they want to use distcc, but
that's more work than I (and probably others) have time to put in. Are there
simple flags we can send through distcc to have it compile for a pentium3 on 
an
athlon-xp without making gcc a cross compiler?

Thoughts?

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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