On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 > David Relson wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your > > operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small > > programs and compiles them. I can see how caching compilation > > info would help with this. > > I ran a quick test with ccache and ./configure. Using bogofilter's > configure script (because it was available): > > before installing ccache: > > 3 runs of ./configure averaged 6.07s > > ... installed ccache ... > > next run took 6.5 sec (slower than before) > next 3 runs averaged 4.96s (18.4% better than before)
All your configure runs were for the same package, right? > > conclusion: ccache _does_ help ./configure It does not for different packages, AFAIK. And that was the question of the OP. Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- [email protected] mailing list
