Re: [Compilercache-general] Hmm, an idea came up my mind...

[Joachim B. <ma...@jo...>]

At 15:26 17.10.01 +0200, Josef Radinger wrote:
>Joachim Breitner wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> it's been a bit silent here. anyway, what about this:
>> 
>> We save some additional Info, e.g. into the filename (l234k5j2l34j234-gcc-3.0.1-kernel-2.4.10), so that after a compilerupdate (which is due to end of Oct, gcc-3.0.2), an simple perlscript can clean up the files from a specific compilerversion.
>> 
>> So, why not just delete all files when the new compiler arrives? Would work for me, but some want to keep two compilers at one (e.g. gcc-3.0.x and gcc-2.x), which can be pretty useful, since not all progs compile with the new gcc. Or with networked or shared cache, you can't just delete all files, but you CAN perhaps delete a specific compiler version.
>> 
>> Another example would be optimizer flags. When I sell my athlon and buy a whatever comes next, I have no use for cached athlon-optimized files.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
>why not saving into different directories for different compilers?

That would of course work for different Compiler versions, but what if you want to work with more than one criteria (e.g. arch)? And I think it's still easier for the script, if it finds all the files in one dir and the filenames starting with the md5sum. When the additional info is saved behind a dash or something, then the script itself can ignore it (it just has to add it when putting a new file into the cache). And for anther script it would still be easy to delete all files that mach certain criterias.

So far so good,
Joachim

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