Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/08/2015 20:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 19:17:56 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > 
> >>> Which clearly says ccache not found. That implies you have added
> >>> ccache to FEATURES but not installed the ccache package. I know, I
> >>> did the same thing last week.  
> >>
> >> Probably O/T but why do you need ccache, unless you are rebuilding
> >> packages on a regular basis, e.g. for testing?
> > 
> > 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.

If you have a slow CPU but a fast disk (SSD), it can save you a lot of 
time.

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Regards
wabe

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