I feel your pain. I have a 8-core Xeon E desktop, and a
2-core Core2 laptop, both running Gentoo. I used distcc from
the laptop to the desktop for a couple months, but
eventually gave up because of too many random compile or
runtime errors.
I've gotten distcc to work reliably only in two use cases:
(1) offloading *all* compiles from one machine to a machine of
a completely different architecture (cross-compiling for a RPi
on a x86-64 desktop), and (2) completely homogeneous systems
(a lab with identical computers).
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:13 PM
Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
wrote:
Has anyone on this list tried distributed cross compiling?
I'm a die-hard Gentoo user and I've got several old laptops that I want
to run Gentoo on. I've (mostly) been successful installing Gentoo on
them, but things would go a LOT faster if I could cross compile using my
Ryzen 7 system to help.
Gentoo has a reasonably good wiki on distributed compiling, but it's
gets a little fuzzy when the server (or "volunteer") machine has a
different processor than the "client". Based on what I've been able to
determine, cross compiling tends to be something of black art anyway.
For example, I'm confused by building a Gentoo toolchain on the
volunteer for the client, and how to set it up.
If anyone on this list has done this, would you mind giving me a hand
off-list?
TIA!
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