distcc User Manual

Martin Pool mbp@samba.org

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Author
• 1.3 Licence
• 1.4 Security Considerations
• 1.5 Getting Started

2. Using distcc

• 2.1 Invoking distcc
• 2.2 Options
• 2.3 Environment Variables
• 2.4 Which Jobs are Distributed?
• 2.5 Running Jobs in Parallel
• 2.6 Choosing a Host
• 2.7 Load Distribution Algorithm
• 2.8 Diagnostic Messages
• 2.9 distcc Exit Codes
• 2.10 Cross-Compilation
• 2.11 distcc Compatibility
• 2.12 File Metadata

3. The distccd Server

• 3.1 Invoking distccd
• 3.2 distccd Exit Codes
• 3.3 distccd Environment Variables

4. Bugs and Future Work

• 4.1 Reporting Bugs
• 4.2 Test Suite
• 4.3 Known Bugs and Restrictions
• 4.4 Large-scale Distribution
• 4.5 Execution across SSH
• 4.6 Load Balancing

5. Results

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Test Environment
• 5.3 Samba
• 5.4 glib

6. distcc Internals

• 6.1 Protocol
• 6.2 Working files
• 6.3 Lock files

Appendix

7. Detailed Results

• 7.1 Results for glib