How do I use ccache and ports?

[Björn König]

Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

> /usr/ports/devel/ccache/pkg-descr
> makes that sound like A Good Thing.
> 
> Any ideas why it's not built into cc/c++, 

Because these are compilers, not compiler caches. I suppose it's not the 
task of a compiler to speed up the build process, but rather producing 
good binaries from source code. I think of the Unix dogma "one task, one 
tool".

> or FreeBSD scripts?
> 
> Should we all be using it?  Reasons not to?

It doesn't work always, e.g. the FreeBSD 6.0 userland on amd64 won't 
build properly using ccache.

Regards Björn


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