MAY
18
2007
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icecream in trunk now supports Mac Os X compile serversKDE is moving from X11 only to be a good citizen on Windows and Mac Os X. For those who like to code on Mac Os X, here's a bit of good news for you: icecream in KDE trunk now supports Mac Os X machines as compile servers. This means that compile jobs can be distributed between Mac Os X machines with the same Xcode version. And if somebody goes the extra mile to make a Linux-Mac cross compiler, even between Linux and Mac Os X nodes. icecream and a couple of fast compile nodes feels like an absolute requirement to code on Linux. Working without it is comparable to eating rotten toasts or something. You can imagine our pain when we wanted to start some development on Mac Os X, and watched the build process go on for hours and hours. We quickly calculated how many hours a port would take, and realized it is well worth spending the time to make icecream work on Mac Os X. You may know that Mac Os X uses GCC to compile. And it is based (by some distance) on BSD. So a port seemed possible, after all. The port was done by Frank Osterfeld and me. Stephan Kulow and Dirk Mueller of SuSE merged the changes into trunk. Since we only have access to Intel Mac's, we are unable to test it and make it work on older PowerPC Macs. If somebody has one of those sitting around collecting dust, we are happy to take it in. Also, we tested in with the latest Xcode release (Xcode is the package that delivers gcc and make and stuff on Mac Os), we have no clue whether icecream will work with older versions. The scheduler should be able to coordinate compile jobs across platforms. This means one scheduler should be enough, even if you want to use Linux and Mac Os X compile nodes in the same icecream network. We tried compiling Qt, and KDE modules, and so far it seems to work just fine. Let us know if you discover bugs. And have fun with it...
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Comments
This is great I've tried to
This is great :)
I've tried to get it working with osx before and couldn't get it to push jobs to the network.
However I just built svn icecream, and it still won't push jobs to the network. Does the schedular have to be svn too? As I don't think I can get this changed as everyone uses the ubuntu packages.
Failing that anything obvious I'm missing? I believe I have the right ports open.