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From: Al <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:08:59
Message-Id: AANLkTi=677=g6h0mSzh+XzrK+K6=nKLM_QNX25jmksSY@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings by Paul Hartman
1 2010/8/23 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>:
2 > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >> Some thoughts of the day
4 >>
5 >> With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The
6 >> bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before
7 >> compilation. Each  program das it again and 90% of the checks check
8 >> the same stuff.
9 >>
10 >> I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks.
11 >
12 > confcache
13 >
14
15 configure knows the option `--cache-file=file':
16 http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14
17
18 Does emerge make use of it? Is there a way to tell emerge to use it,
19 without writing an overlay to each package?
20
21 Al

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Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>