Enabling configureccache by default?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Tue Mar 11 14:04:47 PDT 2008


js wrote:
> ccache really saves so much time, but it is off by default.
> Assuming this is just because MacPorts installer does not contain ccache,
> how about adding ccache into the installer and making configurecache
> on by default?
> I think this would help many users who don't know about ccache, just
> like I used to be.
> If ccache has no bad side-effect, I think it's reasonable to make it
> enabled always.

I would leave this to the users to configure it. We already have an easy 
installation howto for it and I think this is enough. Maybe we could 
announce this howto more by e.g. adding a reference in the FAQ to it.

Rainer


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