Back at Uni (two-and-a-half decades ago now), I setup a hacky version of this sort of thing to distribute compilations over several workstations: * use make -j to run multiple task at once * replace¹ gcc with a script that picked a host and ran the task on that² This had many limitations that distcc lists it doesn't have (the machines had to have the same everything installed, the input and output locations for gcc h…
> some makefiles were not well constructed in terms of dependency ordering, so would break⁵ with make -j even without my hack layered on top
That remains true to this day of even makefiles from some really big name projects. Huge pet peeve of mine and I’ve filed PRs with fixes many times.