On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Dr. David Kirkby >> <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The spkg-install for gap-4.4.10.p12 says >>> >>> echo "*WARNING*: Unsetting CC since that tends to break GAP building" >>> unset CC echo "*WARNING*: Unsetting CXX since that tends to break GAP >>> building" unset CXX >>> >>> This appears to be done by Michael Abshoff as SPKG.txt shows: >>> gap-4.4.10.p8 (Michael Abshoff, June 16th, 2008) ¶ >>> >>> * unset CC in spkg-install (work around for #2575) >>> >>> Looking at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/2575 I can't help feel >>> there must be a better solution. >> >> Find it! :-) >> >> But seriously, this ccache looks really useful for the Cygwin port, >> where building using GCC is painfully slow (we're talking 1-2 days to >> build sage from source on a 2.6Ghz box). > > Does this ccache gain anything on any other platform, apart from Cygwin?
Yes, I'm sure it gains a lot. I don't even know if it works on Cygwin. It's mainly used on other platforms. William > If not, then the obvious thing is to only have CC and CXX unset on Cygwin. > > Another option, would be to not unset them on Solaris, but unset them on > every other platform. That way one could specify a particular compiler > only on Solaris. > > Dave > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
