distcc User Manual

Martin Pool

1. Introduction

• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Licence
• 1.3 Security Considerations
• 1.4 Getting Started
• 1.5 Reporting Bugs
• 1.6 Test Suite

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 File Metadata

3. distcc Compatibility

• 3.1 distcc with ccache
• 3.2 distcc with autoconf
• 3.3 distcc with libtool
• 3.4 distcc with Gentoo Linux
• 3.5 distcc with gcc dependency computation

4. The distccd Server

• 4.1 Invoking distccd
• 4.2 distccd Exit Codes
• 4.3 distccd Environment Variables

5. Cross compiling

6. distcc Internals

• 6.1 Protocol
• 6.2 Working files
• 6.3 Lock files