I wanted to mention a few words the Autoconf. Autoconf generates that wonderful configure script which tells you whether you have all the things required the application you’re trying to compile (or not).  Configure scripts also build Makefiles out of either Makefile.in or Makefile.am files. This is great because it lets […]

I don’t know what Tom was thinking when he gave me an account. I just bitch and whine here when #seneca is empty.
Distcc seems to be coming pretty slowly now that we have to write our own tests. I’ve actually come across a few problems with the gdb, gnu’s debugger, when tring to debug a […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this stuff for a long time so here goes…

Club Moz had it’s first Super Fun Hack Day. Super Fun Hack Day is a day (or part thereof) where people can get together to hack on Mozilla related projects (this means anything that even remotely is related to mozilla). The best […]

Cesar and I have released the first patch for distcc. This patch lets people’s add support for non-gcc compilers (e.g. mscvs, aka cl.exe, which cesar and I will start working on now). I’ll be posting a more extensive tutorial in a bit but you can find all the information in compiler.c .
We invite everyone to […]

I’ve been trying to do something these past few days that we should have done a long time ago; build fox using distcc (now that our assignment has been merged with distcc, this has become incredibly important). This turned out to be rather more complicated than it seems.
I have it set up so that Tom’s […]

More fun news on our distcc patch. VC++ assembler extensions are different than the gnu ones(.asm not .s), and the VC++ object file extensions are also different (.obj not .o). But that’s old news, here’s some new news: this knowledge is integral to the distcc’s dcc_is_source() function (similar issues crop up with dcc_is_object()). These functions […]

So Cesar and I have hit some issues. It turns out that our super fantastic distcc patch has some… issues. It turns out we’ve missed some functions and they seem to be rather important . For example, it turns out that the dcc_is_object() function needs to be compiler specific (who knew?). We’re […]

So I’m back in school and it’s surprisingly difficult to get working on my projects while finishing my degree at the same time. Who would have thought?
The most (personally) distressing part of this for me is that I may not be able to touch my thunderbird ldap project for a while . I’d like […]

I’m really bad at blogging. I was hoping that I’ve gotten better, but I haven’t. Oh, well nothing for it but to try again and there’s even news:
Cesar and I have released the first of (at least) two patches adding support for Micrsoft’s C/C++ compiler (cl) to distcc. This first patch adds a framework for […]