On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Tinne De Laet wrote: > I'm getting a problem (distcc related it seems) when I try to compile > cturtle from source using distcc (export CCACHE_PREFIX=distcc, ...) > > * My system "Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS" (Lucid). > * cturtle from source: http://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros/tags/cturtle > > * Error: > CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 > (MESSAGE): >  The C compiler "/usr/bin/distcc" is not able to compile a simple test >  program. hi Tinne, Looks like there's something wrong with your distcc setup. Try running distcc directly on a simple C file; I expect that you'll see an error of some sort. Once you've worked that out, try the ROS build again. Btw, because you're running Ubuntu, you might want to install cturtle from binary packages: http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_install_of_C_turtle . brian.