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FooTheBar
FooTheBar

Reputation: 857

Distcc does not find servers

I'm sorry that the title is not really telling much, but so far, I can't be more specific...

I have two Ubuntu 14.04 computers in a network (server (who should do the compiling is at 10.8.1.52) and the client is at 10.8.1.42. I installed distcc via sudo apt-get install distcc and use this config file on the server:

>  cat /etc/default/distcc
STARTDISTCC="true"
ALLOWEDNETS="127.0.0.1 10.8.1.0/24"
LISTENER="10.8.1.52"
NICE="10"
JOBS=""
ZEROCONF="false"

And distccd also is listening:

> sudo netstat -taupen | grep distcc
tcp        0      0 10.8.1.52:3632          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      122        24182229    32372/distccd

On the client, I set the DISTCC_HOSTS:

> echo $DISTCC_HOSTS 
10.8.1.52

I know then want to start a compile process on the client (10.8.1.42):

make -j100 CC=distcc

This compiles my code, but only on the client and no work is distributed (although I compile about a dozen .cpp files).

Could someone give me a hint?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1035

Answers (1)

fiscblog
fiscblog

Reputation: 694

If your error says distcc found 0 available servers: Check if your firewall actually is not blocking this port.

From the distcc wiki:

Be sure to allow traffic on the port on which distcc runs (the default is 3632/tcp)

Also you mentioned you compile "a dozen .cpp files". Make sure you set the g++ compiler correctly (I assume the compiler is installed on your server):

make -j100 CC=distcc CXX=distcc

On ther server distcc requires symbolic links to the compilers. Try this python script if they don't already exist.

For further investigation the documentation on github says:

If you run into problems it is highly recommended to use DISTCC_VERBOSE=1 on the client and "--log-level debug" on the server.

Upvotes: 0

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