Preparing for a Distributed Build

Before running a distributed build for the first time, you must create a configuration file that specifies which machines are to participate as dmake build servers. In addition, before a machine can be used as a build server, it must be configured to allows jobs to be distributed to it.

A build server should be of the same architecture and running the same operating system version as the dmake host. Be default, it is assumed that the path to the dmake executables is the same for the dmake host as it is for the build server. If it is not, you must customize the path attribute for that server (for further details see the dmake(1) man page).