Subject: Re: clustering systems for faster m68k builds
To: None <port-m68k@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-m68k
Date: 01/05/1999 09:24:34
In article <Pine.NEB.4.02.9901041551370.11941-100000@epistolic.cynic.net> cjs@cynic.net (Curt Sampson) writes:
>On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Erik E. Fair wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone here has been using multiple systems to
>> build NetBSD in parallel, and thus cut down on build times?
>
>There's the beginning of support in make for executing jobs remotely;
>have a look at the stuff near `#ifdef REMOTE' in jobs.c. It would
>probably be a fair amount of work to make this really happen,
>though.

Actually it is not that much work. I have the old customs daemon working,
and I could turn it into a package with some amount of work.

christos