2010/8/23 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al <oss.el...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Some thoughts of the day >> >> With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The >> bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before >> compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check >> the same stuff. >> >> I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks. > > confcache >
configure knows the option `--cache-file=file': http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14 Does emerge make use of it? Is there a way to tell emerge to use it, without writing an overlay to each package? Al
