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sajuuk

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 13

Distcc & path

Hi all I've got some problem using distcc.

I'm trying to setup a cross compiler on my arch x86_64 to speed up the compile time on my raspberry pi running on ArmArchlinux.

So I followed several guides and distcc seems to work but doesn't want to use the correct compiler.

My arm compiler toolchain is located in "/home/cyril/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin". I've add line "PATH=/home/cyril/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin:$PATH" in /etc/rc.d/distccd so distcc would use the gcc arm compiler instead of the x86_64 one.

When I compile a simple helloworld on my raspberry, the compilation is peformed on my x86_64 machine as excepted but the linkage fails because "hello.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized"

After comparing diffrent hello.o generated with the arm et x86_64 version of gcc, it seems that distcc still use the gcc located in /usr/bin instead of the one located in /home/cyril/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi/bin.

Any idea how to fix it ?

Thanks

Kabbone

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Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 32

Re: Distcc & path

Have you found a solution? I think I got the same problem here...

Apriori

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Registered: 2011-02-15

Posts: 2

Re: Distcc & path

Don't forget that distcc itself is not involved in linking. Instead of tinkering with /etc/rc.d/distccd I'd recommend looking for a proper cross compilation framework (crosstools-ng maybe?).
For a workaround, though, try to mess around with the LD environment variable and set it to the appropriate linker.