At 14:43 Uhr -0800 14.11.2002, Ben Hines wrote:
Perhaps the time to mention this was when i asked on fink-devel. I made sure to ask. Noone objected.I am sorry then, I totally must have missed that mail then (can happen if you get 200-300 mails/day).
Possibly. But it caused problems for me: it caused my build of XFree86 to fail as it was caching the build results, which increased the file usage, which caused my FS to run out of inodes. As I was not aware that ccache was being run unconditonally, I also had no explanation for the fact that after wards I had 300 MB less HD space, which only cleaned up itself after a reboot. This is not a good thing.
The ONLY problems i have had with ccache has been with gcc2 packages. In fact I plan to remove those gcc2 symlinks so it only affects gcc3. I am quite certain that, as you claim, ccache does NOT "explain the problems you have had in recent days". Having used it for many months now I am quite confident that it works perfectly with gcc3 packages.
It also apparently caused problems for some packages, maybe as you say only for gcc2 using packages, but that makes not much difference to me. IMO it is definitly not a good idea to just unconditionally use ccache all the time for everything. At the very least, put the symlinks in a splitoff, which then can be installed optionally by the informed user who does it as his/her own risk. As the package is now, it doesn't allow one to use ccache only selectively (the recommended procedure), forcing one to use an all-or-nothing usage. Bad.
In the current form, I won't accept the package for our current tree. I fully understand that ccache is important for development of big packages (xfree86, KDE, etc.), so I definitly want to see it back in the tree, but only after it has been fixed. You could go for the splitoff approach (with a big WARNING in the DescPackage field, please).
Max
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