On 03/18/2017 06:18 AM, Karl Wette wrote:
> Package: swig
> Version: 3.0.8-0ubuntu3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> At the moment /usr/bin/ccache-swig is installed in the same package as 
> /usr/bin/swig.
> This package however does not provide a symlink in /usr/lib/ccache, as is the 
> case
> for gcc and other compilers. The user must therefore either create their own 
> symlink
> somewhere, or change the name of the SWIG binary used from "swig" to 
> "ccache-swig swig",
> which may be be easy to do if one is building a package owned by someone else.
>
> It would be useful if a separate ccache-swig binary package could be 
> provided, containing
>
> /usr/bin/ccache-swig
> /usr/lib/ccache/swig -> ../bin/ccache-swig
>
> Anyone who wants to use ccache-swig could then simply install this package, 
> and append
> /usr/lib/ccache to their PATH, as one does when using ccache with gcc, etc.
Thanks for the suggestions. I have to admit that I never used
ccache-swig because the bindings I compile are mostly small enough that
I don't care for caching during compilation.

Greetings, Torsten

Reply via email to