From LQWiki

Distcc is a program designed to distribute compiling tasks of C, C++, Objective-C, or Objective C++ code across a network to participating hosts. It is comprised of a server (distccd) and a client program (distcc).

30-second installation instructions:

1. Install distcc on each machine that you wish to share compiling between.
2. On each of the servers,
   distccd --daemon
   Using the option --allow option to restrict access to specific ip addresses.
3. Put the names or ip address of the distcc servers environment variable DISTCC_HOSTS:
   export DISTCC_HOSTS='localhost red green blue'
4. Begin compiling on the "main" machine
   CC=distcc ./configure
make -jx
   where x is the number of processors on all servers running distcc plus one. This is recommended, and can be experimented with.

Internal Links

• Gentoo and distcc

External links

• distcc homepage (distcc.samba.org)
• Linux Magazine article (www.linuxquestions.org)