Re: [Gnewsense-dev] ccache support patch for the Builder

[Dmitry Samoyloff]

At Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:43:22 +0200,
Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> 
> Dmitry Samoyloff schreef:
> > 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?
> 
> Alright. I'll take a patch where's it's commented in config with an 
> explanation that it's useful to uncomment it when testing.

My branch with ccache support is available at
http://obscurehalt.org/bzr/builder/ccache-support .

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