ccache support for make buildworld/make release

[Maxim Sobolev]

Hmm, indeed, will try that.

Thanks for the hint!

-Maxim

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:33:42AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:25:07PM +0400, Roman Kurakin wrote:
> > Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > 
> > >Folks,
> > >
> > >I wonder if anyone considered adding ccache support for 
> > >buildworld/release targets. ccache is a tool, which wraps around gcc, 
> > >allowing to cache object files generated by the compiler to greatly 
> > >speed-up compilation of the same code over and over 
> > >(http://ccache.samba.org/).
> > >
> > >It acts as a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E 
> > >compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be 
> > >satisfied from cache.  This often results in a 5 to 10 times speedup.
> > 
> > Hm. It seems that this is very cool tool. I would glad to see it in FreeBSD.
> > Since I've 5 branch compiles tooooo long and fast systems for compilation
> > does not always available/possible to use while development.
> > 
> > I volonteer to test this if needed.
> 
> BTW, I don't think there's anything to set up..you just set
> CC="ccache cc" or similar.
> 
> Kris