using distcc to speed up GCC bootstraps

[law@redhat.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