[gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi there, It just occurred to me that the emerges shall be much faster if emerges were able to use config.cache set by other applications. The steps during ./configure could be saved globally in an /etc/config.cache which could be copied over by the current emerge step as it if was its own - and

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:24:17 + Rohit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | But since I am a very average guy and there are many people much | smarter than myself out there in gentoo, I think this idea has been | discarded long ago since there are incompatibilities amongst various | software in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:24 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Hi there, It just occurred to me that the emerges shall be much faster if emerges were able to use config.cache set by other applications. The steps during ./configure could be saved globally in an /etc/config.cache which could be copied

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi, On 'gentoo-portage-dev' ML there are such patch (for portage-2.1_preX) plus in portage there's a package: * dev-util/confcache Available versions: 0.3.3 0.4 0.4.1 Installed: 0.4.1 Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/confcache Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:57 +, Rohit Sharma wrote: Hi, On 'gentoo-portage-dev' ML there are such patch (for portage-2.1_preX) plus in portage there's a package: * dev-util/confcache Available versions: 0.3.3 0.4 0.4.1 Installed: 0.4.1 Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
You need three things (my experience) - a patch for portage-2.1_preX/4; emerge confcache from portage and put FEATURES=...confcache... in /etc/make.conf. This works for me. The patch is:confcache-final (IIRC) search mailing-list archives for it. Or mail me directly. Thanks Rumen - I'll take