Speed up DarwinPorts builds with distributed compiling

Nov 03, '05 05:27:00AM

Contributed by: hagus

I spent some time today staring at DarwinPorts slowly grinding my PowerBook G4 to a halt. Frustrated, I set about discovering whether Xcode's distributed build process could be leveraged to speed up my DarwinPorts builds. I was surprised to find that Xcode's distributed build system is just a hacked version of the distcc application.

Based on my digging, I have written a detailed tutorial describing how to use distcc with DarwinPorts to speed compilation time. There are sure to be some improvements that could be made to my technique, but hopefully this gets the ball rolling. I successfully compiled and installed ethereal from DarwinPorts using this process.

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