At Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:00:46 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > > Dmitry Samoyloff schreef: > > Hello, > > > > As far, as I've rebuilt new Gnash in the Builder several times already, > > ccache > > is certainly of help for me. Attached is a small 2-line patch for the > > Builder > > to support ccache. > > Intersting idea. I have little experience with ccache. It's only useful > from the second time on a package is compiled, right?
Yes. > Builder normally > compiles a package only once. I'm curious to know what the ccache > penalty is. If it makes Builder run a lot longer I'd rather not include > it by default. http://ccache.samba.org/performance.html Well, at least we could make it an option in config.local, right? > I guess ccache only works when the binaries are not removed between > compiles. Builder removes $WORKINGDIR every time before building a > package. Can you explain how ccache can do its thing then? It stores all info in its own cache (say, ~/.ccache/), thus it is OK to remove a build directory. My do-update time for Gnash decreased from half an hour to several minutes with ccache. -- I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! <http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7253> _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
