Re: [Compilercache-general] ccache - a C based compiler cache

[Andrew T. <tr...@sa...>]

Ulf,

> Having read your info about ccache I was so curious about ccache that I
> built the ccache-1.1-*_i386.deb for woody and tested it. A potato package
> will follow if I get positive feedback on the woody package...

Rusty Russell has already submitted ccache-1.2 for inclusion in
Debian. I believe it should be in unstable soon. I've also noticed
someone has added it to the FreeBSD ports collection.

Meanwhile, I've released ccache-1.3. Version 1.3 includes a C/C++
unifier that gives the same effect as the unifier in compilercache,
but is rewritten in a much faster fashion (it's about twice as fast as
the flex based unifier in compilercache).

> I made the binary and the links drop into /usr/lib/ccache, so using this
> package is mostly like using the compilercace package for debian. i.e. put
> /usr/lib/ccache into your PATH to be hit earlier than the compilers it shall
> wrap...

You can also use it as a prefix for your compiler. For example, set
"CC=ccache gcc" in your Makefile. Or use:
	CC="ccache gcc" ./configure
for autoconf packages.

Cheers, Tridge