Re: [gentoo-dev] ccache and sandbox

[Defresne Sylvain]

Hello !

* John White (johnjohn@×××××××××××.com) wrote:
> I heard an interesting question on irc just now.  Does anyone have
> ccache on a system actually working to accellerate repeat compiles?
>
> For a ccache overview: http://ccache.samba.org/
>
> Short version, ccache speeds up repeat compiles by caching compiler
> i/o.
>
> However, because of the sandbox, ccache info results in a sandbox
> violation.  The user patched sandbox to allow writes to /var/cache/ccache
> but I'm wondering if there is supposed to be a better way.

  I've got another solution. In fact, the standard sanbox allows full
read / write acces in /tmp directory. So, I just set CCACHE_DIR to
'/tmp/root/ccache' and CC to 'ccache gcc' before calling emerge.

  It works well this way and it doesn't need to modify the sandbox !

Bye
-- 
Keiichi