[ccache] ccache direct mode

2010-01-07 Thread Joel Rosdahl
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:37:58 +1100 tridge at samba.org wrote: > > The basic idea of how to achieve this is finding out which files were > > included by the preprocessor and then storing the hash sums of those > > files in a file associated with the input file and compiler arguments. > > How dep

[ccache] ccache compression patch (was: The future of ccache)

2010-01-07 Thread Joel Rosdahl
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:22:27 +1100 tridge at samba.org wrote: > For example, the compression patch is badly > done I think (it doesn't cope with changing the compression option - > it should either use a .gz extension for compressed cache files, or > recognise them by reading the header). Hm, I do

[ccache] The future of ccache

2010-01-07 Thread tridge at samba.org
Hi John, One of the things we need to properly support these types of features is a real config file for ccache, probably a file called 'config' in the ccache cache directory. The current system with environment variables just makes it too clumsy to add features like these neatly. Cheers, Tridge

[ccache] ccache direct mode

2010-01-07 Thread tridge at samba.org
Hi Joel, > The basic idea of how to achieve this is finding out which files were > included by the preprocessor and then storing the hash sums of those > files in a file associated with the input file and compiler arguments. How dependent is this on the compiler? Is the format of the include f

[ccache] The future of ccache

2010-01-07 Thread tridge at samba.org
Hi Joel, > The latest ccache version was released over five years ago. What's the > future of ccache? I think it's probably time to find a new maintainer - the lack of releases stems from 2 things: 1) great intentions running into lack of time :-) 2) the lack of serious bugs in ccache that