Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:11:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: Robert S <robert.spam.me.senseless@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I use ccache and ports? Message-ID: <42F6329D.9050803@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <d5r7d5lsay.7d5@mail.opusnet.com> References: <7093dffb050807030255a2dbdd@mail.gmail.com> <42F5FB48.4020804@cs.tu-berlin.de> <d5r7d5lsay.7d5@mail.opusnet.com>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > /usr/ports/devel/ccache/pkg-descr > makes that sound like A Good Thing. > > Any ideas why it's not built into cc/c++, Because these are compilers, not compiler caches. I suppose it's not the task of a compiler to speed up the build process, but rather producing good binaries from source code. I think of the Unix dogma "one task, one tool". > or FreeBSD scripts? > > Should we all be using it? Reasons not to? It doesn't work always, e.g. the FreeBSD 6.0 userland on amd64 won't build properly using ccache. Regards Björn -- Björn König (bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) student at the Technische Universität Berlin http://bkoenig.alpha-tierchen.de/
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