[CFT] [bsd.port.mk] ports ccache build support

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sun Aug 5 00:39:15 UTC 2012


On 4 August 2012 15:21, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:42:39 -0500
> Bryan Drewery wrote:

>> > Having a default ccache directory in the makefile that's different
>> > from the default documented in the ccache man page seems needlessly
>> > confusing to me.

+1 for /var/cache

> And since large root file-systems seem to be increasingly
> popular, /root/.ccache may seem reasonable, and people may run cache -M
> on that.

remember that its possible to build as a non-root user, but install as
root, or similar.  Using $HOME for any aspect of the build isn't a
good idea.


-- 
Eitan Adler


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