tinderbox information.

[Egbert Eich]

Kendall Bennett writes:
 > 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. 

Right. We don't do a full rebuild every time but just a 'make Everything'

 > 
 > 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.

Definitely!

Cheers,
	Egbert.