[sldev] How to use distcc on Linux using http-texture source

[Paul Oppenheim (Poppy Linden)]

Alissa Sabre wrote:
> I grabbed the viewer source in the http-texture branch (aka Snowglobe)
> from the public svn at r2451.  I couldn't make use of distcc with it.
> 
> How can I enable distcc?
> 
> I tried followings:
> 
> CXX="distcc i386-redhat-linux-g++" python.py configure
>   The configuration apparently worked, but the generated build.make
>   files contained hard-coded references to /usr/bin/g++

develop.py tries to setup CXX itself (line 323 in my checkout, probably dif in yours)

You may want to not use develop.py. If you do, modify the CMakeCache.txt file afterward to force your changes.


> P.S., I have a feeling I always ask distcc related question when the
> viewer build system has changed...

yeah, i'd rather not have distcc settings in the build, but it would require a number of changes on our setups here. I've filed an issue internally, but it's not a very high priority.

+ poppy