tinderbox information.

[Kendall Bennett]

Egbert Eich <eich@pdx.freedesktop.org> wrote:

>  > I think we could just as easily use 'ccache' and 'distcc' which are 
>  > nearly trivial to setup and run on almost all platforms, including Cygwin.
>  > 
>  > Not to start a holy war or anything :)
> 
> I don't see a need for any of these. 
> 
> 'make Everything' does what we need in almost all situations. It
> rebuilds the Makefiles (it just doesn't do a 'make clean'). If we
> are building in an lndir'ed (which I highly recommend) 'lndir'
> should run after every 'cvs update -d'. The '-d' option is required
> to catch newly created directories. 

It is only a performance tuning issue and can be used to speed up 
Tinderbox builds if there are other Linux boxes on the  same local area 
network that can be used in a compile farm. If the speed is good enough 
without it, then no big deal. 

But it is way cheaper to have 5 single proc boxes in a compile farm, than 
getting a 4 way SMP box ;-) Especially the boxes are already being used 
for something else.

Regards,

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