[yocto] Procedure to setup icecc for performing a distributed build

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-09-06 09:29, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2012 19:23:53 Elvis Dowson wrote:
>> Unfortunately no. I've got two machines, both with quad-core intel i7
>> processors, but I just couldn't get icecc to work with yocto. I end up
>> regularly perform fresh builds at least 5 to 6 times a day, and it takes me
>> 2 hours to build core-image-minimal.
>
> At its core, icecc.bbclass just sets things up so that icecc is called instead
> of the normal compiler. It would be worth verifying that that is actually
> taking effect by looking at the commands being used as reported in
> log.do_configure for specific recipes.

Is this only for the host compiler or the target (cross) compilers as well?
If it's only the host compiler being used for "native" builds, how much is
there to be gained from distributing the work?

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