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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:19:31 +0800
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Subject: Re: When I went to install distcc for a new machine,
 I couldn't find it...
To: Soren <somian08 AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2025, 02:36 Soren via Cygwin,  wrote:

> Hello Cygwinstas,
>
> I installed distcc from setup.exe awhile ago, although I didn't have a host
> (what distcc docs call a 'volunteer') machine to share compilation. Now I
> have such a machine (dropped over a grand on it with tax) and I have base
> cygwin installed on it (+ some good stuff like binutils and gcc, you get
> the picture). One of my main motivations for this acquisition was to
> provide a powerful system to do distributed C compiling for Cygwin builds.
> When I went to install distcc for the new machine, I couldn't find it.
> Clearly distcc has been removed from the Cygwin collection, and I presume
> that's because it was unmaintained for a long period of time.
>
> I would really like to see distcc re-included in Cygwin. So much so that I
> am going to offer to be its maintainer. I recently built distcc 3.4 from
> Debian `sid'
>

So I said above that I'd be willing to maintain distcc. I've not been a
> maintainer before so I will have to learn things. That's ok. One thing
> would be a great help, I think: if someone has the cygwin cygtool'ed source
> package for distcc in their /usr/src directory and could email it to me,
> I'd have a running start. I'd really appreciate the effort, so, please take
> a look folks if you've built distcc in the past.
>
> Email obscured:   somian08[AT]gmail[DOT]com
>
> Ironically, I volunteered to maintain distcc in 2007 (I tripped over my own
> message somewhere recently) but I never followed through on that. I tended
> to overextend myself back in those days, but I think I am a tiny bit wiser
> now.
>   - Soren Andersen


Hi Soren,
The proper cygwin mailing list for ITP is the cygwin-apps one.

Read documentation for packagers, look at cygport tool and join the
cygwin-apps list.

See you there
Marco

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