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

[RW]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 17:38:44 -0700
Eitan Adler wrote:

> 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.

Why isn't it? In that scenario /var/cache wouldn't be writable.