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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:42:37
Message-Id: 44A91A25.8090703@mid.message-center.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it? by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Alexander Skwar wrote:
3 >> Dale wrote:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>> I thought it was ccache? I did this a while back too. Is this
7 >>> something else we can use in addition to ccache?
8 >>>
9 >>
10 >> confcache caches the results of all those ./configure runs, so that,
11 >> in theory, a check would only be done once. This would indeed speedup
12 >> ./cnfigure runs.
13 >>
14 >> ccache caches compiled "stuff". If you recompile a package (or a similar
15 >> package), not everything has to be compiled again.
16 >>
17 >> Alexander Skwar
18 >>
19 > So I need to add this too huh?? I'll have to check into this. I'm all
20 > for speed. < zoom >
21
22 Well, *need* - dunno. It's nice, but it's rather error prone, as there are
23 too many "broken" packages out there. That's why confcache is now p.masked.
24
25 Alexander Skwar
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