Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   it's obvious that, even if ccache is determined to be already
> installed, that Makefile is still going to cause the ccache source
> tarball to be downloaded, after which it's just going to be ignored.
> wouldn't it make more sense to check *immediately* if a particular
> (and, again, sufficiently recent) host tool is already on the system,
> at which point that entire Makefile could just be no-opped out of the
> way?  that is, the basic call to "HostBuild" can just be avoided at
> that point, no?  since you effectively have *nothing* to do.
I agree. But simply adding some more code for preventing the download is
not the right solution. I'm thinking about writing some generic code for
handling that kind of packages, so the whole check can be simplified a lot.
I'll do it when I find the time for it.

- Felix
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