Build distcc from source code

distcc is a useful tool to speed up the build. We can dowload it from:
http://code.google.com/p/distcc/.
60-second instructions

1.For each machine, download distcc, unpack, and do

./configure && make && sudo make install

2.On each of the servers, run distccd --daemon, with --allow options to restrict access.

3.Put the names of the servers in your environment:

export DISTCC_POTENTIAL_HOSTS='localhost red green blue'

4.Build!

cd ~/work/myproject; pump make -j8 CC=distcc

Our own steps to get and build it:

1. Download it.

$ pwd

/home/zedware

$ wget http://distcc.googlecode.com/files/distcc-3.1.tar.bz2
2. Try to build it.

$ tar -xjfv distcc-3.1.tar.bz2

$ cd distcc-3.1

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/zedware/usr && make && make install

Oops. Failed with some errors. We should take a look at:
http://code.google.com/p/distcc/issues/detail?id=29.
3. Compile and build Python 2.4 or latter.

We don't have root permissions, install it to /home/zedware/usr/bin.

4. Set environments and build distcc again.

$ export PYTHON=/home/zedware/usr/bin/python && ./configure --prefix=/home/zedware/usr

$ make

$ make install

Use setenv in csh, export in bash.

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