Lot of changes happened in this area in last 48 hours. There is no bootstrap
step needed anymore.
Do you still see issues?
> On 15 Mar 2018, at 00:49, Jon Loeliger <j...@netgate.com> wrote:
>
> Good Evening Sports Fans,
>
> Have we got a match for you tonight!
>
> In this corner, ccache. Loved for it speed and hackery, hated for
> its invasive corruptibility.
>
> In the other corner, we have vppapigen, loved tool of the single-source
> definitions for all things yet hated as the monster that will not die!
>
> Tonight we bring them together in the top-level Makefile, in a clause
> that might leave a few, myself included, mystified:
>
> ifeq ("$(wildcard /usr/bin/ccache )","")
> @echo "WARNING: Please install ccache AYEC and re-run this script"
> else
> @rm -rf $(BR)/tools/ccache-bin
> @mkdir -p $(BR)/tools/ccache-bin
> @ln -s /usr/bin/ccache $(BR)/tools/ccache-bin/gcc
> @ln -s /usr/bin/ccache $(BR)/tools/ccache-bin/g++
> @ln -s /usr/bin/ccache $(BR)/tools/ccache-bin/clang
> @ln -s /usr/bin/ccache $(BR)/tools/ccache-bin/clang++
> mkdir -p $(BR)/tools/bin
> rm -f $(BR)/tools/bin/vppapigen
> ln -s $(WS_ROOT)/src/tools/vppapigen/vppapigen \
> $(BR)/tools/bin/vppapigen
> ls -lsa $(BR)/tools/bin
> endif
> @touch $@
>
> You might recognize that as part of the $(BR)/.bootstrap.ok target!
> It is! You could win!
>
> But first, let's see what happens when ccache is NOt installed on the
> build machine! Yep, you get that warning:
>
> @echo "WARNING: Please install ccache AYEC and re-run this script"
>
> Naturally, that is lost way, way, back at the beginning of the scroll-back.
> Twenty
> minutes of scroll-back. Unless.... Yes, in just under 2 minutes, the build
> fails!
> Quizically like this:
>
> APIGEN vlibmemory/memclnt.api.h
> JSON API vlibmemory/memclnt.api.json
> /bin/sh: line 2: vppapigen: command not found
> /bin/sh: line 2: vppapigen: command not found
>
> So, yeah, installing ccache clears all that up.
>
> And since using vppapigen is sort of necessary for the
> whole build here, using ccache is not really an optional
> build-time dependency anymore. If you're cools with that,
> I'm cool with that, but we should list it as a build-time
> requirement for all build hosts including CentOS:
>
> $ git grep ccache Makefile
> Makefile:CCACHE_DIR?=$(BR)/.ccache
> Makefile:DEB_DEPENDS = curl build-essential autoconf automake ccache
> Makefile:RPM_SUSE_BUILDTOOLS_DEPS = autoconf automake ccache check-devel
> chrpath
>
> If no one beats me to it, I might submit a patch to
> help the situation.
>
> So it's a tie!
>
> jdl
>
>
>
>
