Short: distcc distributed C/C++ compiler Author: Martin Pool (port by Steven Solie) Uploader: ssolie telus net (Steven Solie) Type: dev/gcc Version: 2.18.3-8 Architecture: ppc-amigaos SUMMARY ------- This is a self-contained port of the popular distcc distributed compilation package for AmigaOS. For more information and documentation on distcc please visit the support web site at http://distcc.samba.org/ All of the distcc tools are available including: distcc - client for dispatching compiles distccd - server for servicing compile requests distccmon-text - text based monitor tool distccmon-amiga - GUI based monitor tool FEATURES -------- The following features are disabled in this port: - inetd mode - syslog support - ssh support - daemon detaching - masquerading All remaining features including the multi-threaded pre-forking daemon, lzo compression and GUI monitor are all present. When combined with GNU make's parallel build feature and a pool of servers, the distcc package can save a lot of time compiling larger projects. INSTALLATION ------------ Copy distcc#? SDK:C CLONE Next either setup a home directory and the HOME environment variable or use the DISTCC_DIR to point to where distcc files will be stored. The distcc client maintains a set of files in the .distcc directory. Finally, setup the DISTCC_HOSTS environment variable to describe your network and you are ready to do distributed compiles. Please see the distcc documentation and use the --help option on the client and server for more details. SECURITY -------- The distccd daemon uses simple IP filtering for a bit of security specified with the --allow option. Don't forget you can also specify a network of nodes. For example, distccd --allow 10.10.10.0/24 will allow all the nodes in your LAN on the 10.10.10.0 network. Here is a reference on subnetting for more info: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/3.html#ustand_ip_add HISTORY ------- 2.18.3-8 - another fix for the distccd command searching - changed monitor update rate from .75 s to .5 s 2.18.3-7 - fixed distccd command searching - disabled DOS requesters in distcc and distccd - compiled with clib2 1.200 2.18.3-6 - compiled with SDK 51.22 - added process birth handshake to distcc and distccd - fixed distcc error handling when server is unavailable - fixed distccd waitpid which could leave acceptors hanging - fixed distccd premature exit - increased accuracy of cpp state reporting - remote compiles now have a slightly higher task priority - changed size and layout of GUI monitor 2.18.3-5 - compiled with beta SDK 51.21 - acceptors exit with EINTR with ctrl-c now - reduced acceptor lifetime to 25 jobs - fixed makefile to link with correct clib2-ts flavour - reworked main daemon processing loop so that child processes are always collected correctly - no longer crashes if daemon is interrupted while starting up 2.18.3-4 - compiled with beta SDK 51.20 - should no longer report elapsed time as a very large number - removed all Forbid() calls and changed ctrl-c breaking to use ProcessScan() - removed Amiga-specific limits on number of processes - now returns the actual errno from an interrupt - added breaking of child processes launched by acceptors - added precondition checking to wait routines - now uses death messages to synchronize with child processes 2.18.3-3 - compiled with beta SDK 51.17 - fixed some new compile warnings from the updated GCC - applied argv fixes from Michael Donohue - fixed for IDOS->GetProcSegList() API change - updated the docs - removed recursion safeguard tracing debug messages 2.18.3-2 - fixed distcc ctrl-c breaking to be more responsive - distccd now won't shut down until the parent process receives a break signal - distccd acceptor name changed - errno and h_errno are now threadsafe (requires bsdsocket.library 4.275 or higher) - updated to use clib2 from CVS dated 2005-10-26 - fixed bug which ignored CTRL-C if the distccd daemon was run from AmigaShell - fixed loggers to be thread-safe - implemented recursion safeguard - changed distcc to redirect stderr to stdout by default instead of /dev/null 2.18.3-1 - ported distcc 2.18.3 package - various threading fixes required - modified to use blocking sockets with timeouts - added GUI monitor for AmigaOS - compiled with clib2 1.196 CREDITS ------- - Colin Wenzel for dos.library help and expert advice - Olaf Barthel for clib2 fixes and threading advice - Andy Broad for providing his AWeb make changes - Alex Carmona for the icon