On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 23:04 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abart...@samba.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 07:53 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> I notice that Sama builds with Samba 4.0.x now use WAFCACHE to store > >> temporary files in the build process. Caching these files is fine, but > >> what clears them out? I've been working in test environments where > >> WAFCACHE was set to "/tmp/wafcache", such as building Fedora RPM's for > >> testing, and eventually ran my filesystem out of inodes because > >> nothing expires them. > >> > >> For now, I've left a cron job running to flush old files there, but > >> does anyone have a better approach? Should the WAFCACHE be in inside > >> the build tree, and flushed as part of "make clean"? > > > > The only waf cache I can find is in bin/.confcache. Have you set > > something manually? > > > > Andrew Bartlett > > The Fedora SRPM's do, I wa working from those. I had a gentle word > with them about this, and they're switching it to $PWD/WAFCACHE. in > the build directory, although the default you've illuminated here > actually makes more sense.
I wouldn't recommend using it at all between builds. The Samba Team never sets it, and ccache is a safer option, as it verifies the input to gcc, rather than before gcc is called. We occasionally have strange situations where waf doesn't think the deps on a task have changed, but they really have, and the only way to get things building again is to blow away the target object or the whole working tree. If the WAFCACHE is used in an automated process, then the 'old' result could be silently returned, which might be bad. I'm working from this description of it from here, and from private discussions with Tridge from when we first started with waf: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#! topic/waf-users/jegukEHjJ68 Finally, I don't want to slander waf: we use an old version of waf, and so my concerns might be addressed in a later version, or be specific to the way Samba (ab)uses waf. Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba