[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] build: improve ccache support

[Roman Yeryomin]

On 2020-06-04 22:29, Michael Jones wrote:
>> I agree with Felix. Having one ccache directory for multiple repos
>> doesn't make much sense to me as most probably they are for different
>> platforms. And even if they are for same platform there are more 
>> chances
>> for ccache corruption and deleting it will affect all those repos. So 
>> it
>> still can be done with symlink but IMO should be done manually to make
>> sure you know what you are doing.
>> Also BASEDIR should be changed too, probably, if we want to go that 
>> way.
>> 
>> 
> I am already using a shared ccache directory for multiple builds in my
> continuous integration system. I'm accomplishing this by patching the 
> build
> system to change the directory for the ccache directory.
> 
> If it were a .config option, your use-case would be directly supported, 
> as
> well as my use-case, without as much custom patching.
> 
> I imagine that there are plenty of other organizations which would use 
> the
> .config based functionality to customize things to their liking.
> 
> If ccache is corrupted there are much larger problems than slowing down
> other builds.

Please see v2

Regards,
Roman

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