On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 17:08 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 01:07 +0200, Kinkie wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 00:03 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > > > ons 2006-08-16 klockan 01:36 +0200 skrev Kinkie: > > > > Hi all, > > > > this is a second attempt at getting autoconf/automake to > > > understand > > > > our desire to get builds faster, and this attempt works for me. > > > > > > What I don't quite get is why we should need to have configure look > > > for > > > ccache? It's trivial to do this outside configure, and many > > > installations of ccache already sets up the system in such manner that > > > ccache is used by default without the need to do anything. > > > > Not all do, and the main reason to me is convenience (admittedly, it > > should be on by default to get the maximum gain). > > I really dont care either way about having the right voodoo in the > configure script or not... > > If we have a test for it, it should be off by default, using space in ~ > when the user does not expect it is evil at best.
This is the way it currently works: it requires an explicit --enable-ccache / --enable-distcc switch. Kinkie
