On  5 Jul 2005, Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: distcc
> Version: 2.18.3-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Is it possible to include a small script in the distcc package, that
> allows the user to turn distributed compiling easily on and off?
> 
> My solution would be something like:
> distcc-off:
> removes all symlinks in /usr/local/bin which point to distcc
> 
> distcc-on:
> creates all symlinks in /usr/local/bin
> 
> The background is: I have a laptop and when connected to my home-lan I
> want to use my compiler-farm. But when I am in a different lan, distcc
> is quite useless. Moreover when compiling things in a different lan I
> see these annoying warnings.

You can also just set DISTCC_HOSTS=localhost and distcc will directly
run everything locally.  There is still some cost but it's very small.

That's not to say I think the scripts are a bad idea.  I think gentoo
has something similar?

-- 
Martin


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