On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 21:53:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I only have it enabled for LibreOffice, which is a regular victim of > > @preserved-rebuild causing the same version to be rebuilt.
> What sort of improvements do you get? libreoffice here takes about 1h30 > to build, give or take 10 mins or so. Doesn't seem worth the extra > hassle of ccache for an hour and a half. It varies, but it can more than halve the time taken. Well worth the minute or two it took to set it up to happen automatically. % cat /etc/portage/env/ccache.conf FEATURES="ccache" % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice app-office/libreoffice ccache.conf disk-tmpdir.conf And don't forget to emerge ccache ;-) For completeness, LO also uses and on disk TMPDIR because my tmpfs /tmp isn't big enough, so % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch" -- Neil Bothwick Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
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