[Feature] Distributed Compilation/distcc ?

[YaBoiMax]

Maybe an option to use/configure distcc for distributed compilation?

[Lukas-Heiligenbrunner]

Hey,
I've never heard of this. Can you give me an example how an AUR build could look like with distcc?
How do different nodes connect with each other?

[YaBoiMax]

Hi,
I have not yet successfully used it, however the information from the official Arch Wiki looks correct to me so my explanation will be based upon that.

Within a makepkg.conf you can specify whether or not to use distcc and which hosts will volunteer their compute power.
For example:
if I wanted to build a package with distcc I would modify my /etc/makepkg.conf so it would contain the following lines

BUILDENV=(distcc fakeroot color !ccache check !sign)
# The threads are roughly twice the number max threads per server
MAKEFLAGS="-j20"
DISTCC_HOSTS="localhost/4 10.0.0.40/6"

Then once I build it, makepkg should use distcc and the remote hosts to compile the package.
This obviously requires servers with distcc installed and configured.

[Lukas-Heiligenbrunner]

In #286 I'll add a new settings page where one can configure a custom makepkg.conf where your example can be configured.
This should solve your issue, right?

[YaBoiMax]

Yes, it wouldn't be perfectly integrated. But it works perfectly for tinkerers, so it shall suffice :-)

[Lukas-Heiligenbrunner]

Great.
Don't close issues before they are fixed, that's not how issues work, haha ;-)