Re: ccache and distcc, take two

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:08 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 01:07 +0200, Kinkie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 00:03 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > > ons 2006-08-16 klockan 01:36 +0200 skrev Kinkie:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > this is a second attempt at getting autoconf/automake to
> > > understand
> > > > our desire to get builds faster, and this attempt works for me.
> > >
> > > What I don't quite get is why we should need to have configure look
> > > for
> > > ccache? It's trivial to do this outside configure, and many
> > > installations of ccache already sets up the system in such manner that
> > > ccache is used by default without the need to do anything.
> >
> > Not all do, and the main reason to me is convenience (admittedly, it
> > should be on by default to get the maximum gain).
>
> I really dont care either way about having the right voodoo in the
> configure script or not...
>
> If we have a test for it, it should be off by default, using space in ~
> when the user does not expect it is evil at best.

This is the way it currently works: it requires an explicit
--enable-ccache / --enable-distcc switch.

   Kinkie
Received on Thu Aug 17 2006 - 02:09:46 MDT