Using distcc to help build GCC 4.5

So trying to be efficient in building GCC 4.5, I am going to use something I learned in SBR600 and that is using distcc. In my past blog, I used distcc to build abiword a open source text editor. From the result from that build, I thought why not give it a shot.

Since I haven't done this for about 4 months, I referred to the notes my professor Chris Tyler provided us that class also some notes from my blog.

The three machines I decided to use for my experiment are: HongKong, Scotland and of course Ireland.

So I setup the machines with the instructions from the site. And here is a screen shot of the results


As you look at the screen capture. I ran the tool top to display all the tasks running on each system. So in the bottom two windows, if done correctly you should be able to see an entry of with the following commands "cc1, distccd, or ccplus". But sadly, it was not there except for the Ireland box, so maybe I messed up somewhere. So for now, I'll have to wait 53mins till my GCC build fails again.

Hopefully the next time I build everything will work perfectly.