* Fix problem in "make clean" reported by Lisa Seelye.
* Fix issues in temporary file handling that could allow a local
attacker to interfere with another user's distcc processes.
* Daemon niceness is incremented by +5 by default. (This can be
changed by --nice.)
* The per-user configuration directory can be set by $DISTCC_DIR.
It defaults to the old value of ~/.distcc/.
* For regular compile failure, don't say "with exit code 1".
* The server now emits warnings to the log and to the client if
its PATH is set such that it will recursively run a distcc
client. This check is done at run time for the requested
compiler name. The server's $PATH is not modified in other
ways. This may help reduce problems with finding the right
remote compiler.
* SCO/Caldera operating systems are no longer supported due to
their recent absurd attacks against Linux and IBM.
* TMPDIR is no longer required to start with '/', so that Cygwin
paths starting with a drive letter may be used. Reported by
Heiko Elger.
* Various man page updates.
* Daemon now sits in the root directory while running, not the
temporary directory.
* Temporary directory is gone. Working files are created directly
under $TMPDIR.
* Lock files and state files are stored under DISTCC_DIR, rather
than in /tmp.
* Test cases are more robust in choosing a daemon port number.
* Optional LZO1X compression of network traffic, to make distcc
faster on slow or overloaded networks. This is turned on by
appending ",lzo" to each host specification.
* The daemon by default allows 2+NCPUS, rather than 3*NCPUS. The
two extras are to allow for some processes to be blocked on
network IO, but allowing more than two of them is probably not
useful on multiprocessor machines.
* Larger files are sent and received using memory mappings where
possible.
* Use of mmap and compression makes distcc substantially faster in
at least some cases.
* Bug fixes
* New program distccmon-text shows the state of any distcc
processes run by the current user. It can be run by hand or
read by a shell script. Should be popular with vmstat fans.
* The standalone daemon now "preforks" before accepting
connections to reduce per-request overhead. Can be disabled by
--no-prefork, which restores the standard Unix behaviour.
* Bug fixes
* And much more..
* If $DISTCC_HOSTS is not set, the host list is taken from from
~/.distcc/hosts, if that exists, or otherwise $sysconfdir/distcc/hosts.
* Add --listen option to distccd, to control which IP address is
used to listen for connections. May be useful for access
control on dual-homed machines.
distcc is a program to distribute compilation of C or C++ code across
several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same
results as a local compile, is simple to install and use, and is often
two or more times faster than a local compile.
distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have
synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files
installed. Machines can be running different operating systems, as long
as they have compatible binary formats or cross-compilers.
