mock + ccache? (was Re: nothing from buildsys?)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:44 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 10:45 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > That reminds me...  Has anyone ever tried to tie mock and ccache
> > together somehow?  It seems like that would speed up repeated build
> > attempts noticably.
> 
> It is potentially possible, but the problem is that ccache has in the
> past caused build issues from time to time for various people outside of
> mock. I dare not think what chaos it could wreak in a semi-automated
> buildsystem. distcc *might* be a better choice, once it's ready.

If you think make -j causes problems for people... :-)

I think that ccache is potentially helpful for people when they're
testing locally and trying to get stuff working, but I definitely
wouldn't want it enabled for production builds

Jeremy