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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] distcc and other chipsets
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:22:01 -0800

Quoting 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

Nevermind, while talking to rycee on IRC we found that gcc has to be the same
version (one of the machines was 3.3.2, the rest 3.3.3). ;)

-sandalle

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