Hello again,

 I got the idea yesterday to set up a cross-compile environment on my Linux
machine (an old PII 300mhz laptop) for m68k-netbsdelf and use distcc to
off-load the compiling tasks from my mac68k box.

Here are some results from compiling my library "imcomm", which has some nasty
code.

% time make CC=distcc
<snip>
32.7u 8.6s 1:20.13 51.6% 0+0k 27+87io 103pf+0w

% time make CC=gcc
<snip>
108.6u 10.2s 2:15.86 87.5% 0+0k 2+102io 62pf+0w

Tomorrow I'll set up my P4 machine, too, and make a howto/walkthrough. With
two machines (including a much faster one, the P4) doing compiles, I should be
able to get some speedy compiles. FYI, as far as I know, distcc does
pre-processing and linking on the host machine and offloads only the actual
compilation part, so libraries and header files do not need to be present on
the cross-compiler. I had to copy /usr/include, libc.* and crt*.o from my Mac
to get gcc to compile, nothing more.

Unfortunately I do not have enough space to untar pkgsrc. Is anyone up for
trying this? This could really help with pkgsrc building.

distcc: http://distcc.samba.org/

-Claudio
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