distcc helps us compile things much faster by using everyone elses cpu.

1. Get distcc: http://distcc.samba.org/ftp/distcc/distcc-2.18.3.tar.bz2
2. ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gnome
3. make
4. su
5. make install
6. cd /usr/lib
7. mkdir distcc
8. mkdir distcc/bin
9. cd distcc/bin
10. echo '#!/bin/sh' > c++
11. echo 'distcc /usr/bin/c++ $*' >> c++
12. sed s/c++/cc/g c++ > cc
13. sed s/c++/gcc/g c++ > gcc
14. sed s/c++/g++/g c++ > g++
15. chmod a+x *
16. exit
17. mkdir ~/.distcc
18. edit ~/.distcc/hosts to be:

    localhost
    130.216.165.130
    130.216.165.109
    130.216.165.110
    

Now when you want to compile something with distcc as the compiler, put /usr/lib/distcc/bin at the start of your path, and use -j option with make. for each machine in your hosts file, add 4 to the -j value, so if there are three machines in your host file you'll use "make -j12".

Get each person on their machine to run: distcc --daemon --allow "130.216.165.0/24 127.0.0.1" (This is best added to /etc/rc.local)

This will allow us all to share our cpu for compiling.