Distcc

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 -j''x''
   

   where x is the number of processors on all servers running distcc plus one. This is recommended, and can be experimented with.

See also

• Gentoo and distcc

External links

• distcc homepage
• Linux Magazine article