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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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