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Re: using distcc to speed up GCC bootstraps
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:10:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: using distcc to speed up GCC bootstraps
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <orhdxnzxii.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>, Alexandre Oliva wri
tes:
>On Feb 18, 2004, law@redhat.com wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts on using distcc to distribute the builds of the java runtime?
>
>Well, we do distribute the C++ bits, but since Java isn't suitable for
>preprocessing, distcc can't do much about it. In the particular case
>of GCC bootstrapping, the additional requirements of having the build
>tree visible on all build machines could enable us to do something
>about it, but it would definitely be a hack on top of distcc.
I don't see how it would be all that much of a hack. But I've certainly
never looked at distcc.
Basically it seems to me all you need to do is ship across the referenced
source and the command line -- for java that's all you need (ie, pretend
the original source file is already preprocessed and I would think it would
"just work".)
jeff