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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] sys-libs/ncurses: Use --cache-file to speedup subsequent econf runs
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:55:30
Message-Id: 20170321175515.43c642b7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] sys-libs/ncurses: Use --cache-file to speedup subsequent econf runs by "Michał Górny"
1 On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:30:29 +0100
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On wto, 2017-03-21 at 17:05 +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:46:43 +0100
6 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > > > Use --cache-file to reuse the previous check results in the
9 > > > subsequent configure script runs. This gives a major speed
10 > > > advantage (beating the previous parallel runs) and significant
11 > > > CPU savings.
12 > >
13 > > Just in case (didn't try nor do I know the reasons of this), but I
14 > > think this change deserves a round in ~arch:
15 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162875
16 >
17 > confcache is a completely different business. The problem with
18 > confcache is that it uses persistent, global cache for lots of
19 > packages, which can easily get stale or provide corrupted data. Using
20 > local cache is usually safe (except for very broken packages).
21
22
23 yes you're right, but that still doesn't justify pushing straight to
24 stable for a package in @system
25 (the same applies to the other patches)

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