Crosscompling wiht distcc

[WarheadsSE]

Use the /etc/conf.d/distcc to do this.

[pezz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'U')se the /etc/conf.d/distcc to do this.

[pezz]

Sorry, just realised you and disfido were talking about systemd, which uses the conf.d file.

[disfido]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'U')se the /etc/conf.d/distcc to do this.

[WarheadsSE]

I touched up my distccd configure on my Systemd running VM.
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# cp /etc/conf.d/distccd /etc/conf.d/distccd5

# ln -s /usr/bin/distccd /usr/bin/distccd5

# cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/distccd.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/distccd5.service

# cat /etc/conf.d/distccd5
PATH=/usr/local/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin:$PATH
DISTCC_ARGS="--user nobody --allow 192.168.11.0/24 --port 3632"

# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/distccd5.service
[Unit]
Description=A distributed C/C++ compiler armv5
Documentation=man:distccd(1)

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/distccd5
ExecStart=/usr/bin/distccd5 --daemon --no-detach $DISTCC_ARGS

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

# systemctl enable distccd5.service
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I changed a few things in the service & created a link so that I know which one is 5/6/7 since my VM does all of them.

The PATH in conf.d/distccd is the key, but since I have multiples, I split them this way instead of altering the originals.

[Philoo]

a couple of basics:

1/ if cross compiling make sure that either the folder where your cross compiler sits is first in $PATH (I think I saw that in the wrong order) and/or explicitely masquerade the compilers , as per the man page:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ASQUERADING
The basic idea is to create a "masquerade directory" which contains links from the name of the real compiler to the distcc binary. This directory is inserted early on the PATH, so that calls to the compiler are intercepted and distcc is run instead. distcc then removes itself from the PATH to find the real compiler.

For example:

# mkdir /usr/lib/distcc/bin
# cd /usr/lib/distcc/bin
# ln -s ../../../bin/distcc gcc
# ln -s ../../../bin/distcc cc
# ln -s ../../../bin/distcc g++
# ln -s ../../../bin/distcc c++