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DistCC is an [Acronym] for __Dist__ributed __C__ __C__ompiler.

distcc acts as a front end to the [GCC] suite and uses compilers on other boxes on your network to speed compilation.

To use you need to install the distcc [Package] on each machine and do some setup. This is fairly well documented on the web so I won't repeat here (i.e. I am lazy).

When I compile software with three (slow) machines I do the following:

<tt>make -j6 CC='distcc'</tt>

The -j6 is to tell make to use 6 parallel tasks (recommended is 2 per CPU).

This works brilliantly for most programs.

There are some tricks to getting this working for [KernelDevelopment] as first time I did this it stopped part way through and when I did a normal make it started all over from the beginning.

Some of the answers to these problems are in here: %%%
http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2005q1/002941.html %%%
http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-distcc.php

However when I did this it worked but created other problems like certain [Module]s not compiling etc. If anybody knows how to do this reliably please tell me -- IanMcDonald

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