[U-Boot] buildman with distcc

Simon Glass
2014-11-14T00:14:22Z

Hi York,

On 13 November 2014 17:02, York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 04:01 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi York,
>>
>> On 13 November 2014 16:03, York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/13/2014 03:01 PM, York Sun wrote:
>>>> Simon,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to use buildman with distcc? I am trying to speed up compiling.
>>>> Using MAKEALL or make I can specify CROSS_COMPILE="distcc <path to toolchain". I
>>>> don't know how to do this with buildman.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I meant to use buildman with multiple architectures, like 'arm & freescale'
>>> powerpc aarch64 together.
>>
>> I wonder what would happen if you put it in the '[toolchain]' section
>> of ~/.buildman ?
>>
>
> buildman --list-tool-chains cannot detect the toolchain if doing so.

No, it works by looking for filenames rather than running the command
line. But that should not affect operation.

>
> If not using buildman, I can modify Makefile to prefix distcc to CC and keep
> using MAKEALL.

Indeed. I wonder why that doesn't work with buildman?

Regards,
Simon