CCache: Segregating cache directories per port

[Chris Jones]

> On 11 Dec 2020, at 7:23 pm, Christopher Nielsen <mascguy at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
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>> On 2020-12-11-F, at 14:16, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Just curious, but what exactly is the advantage of doing this ? I am not sure i see what problem you are trying to solve that a single cache causes .
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>>>> On 11 Dec 2020, at 6:20 pm, Christopher Nielsen <mascguy at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
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>>> Is it possible to easily override the ccache directory via command-line, with the goal of maintaining separate caches per port?
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>>> I did some quick digging through the MacPorts TCL files, and didn’t see support for such an override.
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>>> My current solution — workable, though not ideal — is to update ‘ccache_dir’ in ~/.macports/macports.conf. That’s easily doable via a ‘port’ wrapper script.
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>>> But assuming I didn’t miss anything, would folks be open to having the ability to specify ‘ccache_dir’ from the port command-line? If so, I’ll contribute the changes.
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>>> Thoughts?
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> In short, I’d like to maintain separate caches for ports I’m working on — Mame being the best example, as it takes at least an hour to build locally — without the cache being flooded by other ports. And preferably without resorting to custom ccache configuration, etc.
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> Make sense?

Honestly, not really. Ccache can easily handle multiple concurrent builds to a single cache directory, and you can trivially increase the size of the cache if thats your problem, so I still don’t see what issue you are referring to by ‘being flooded by other ports’ as I don't see really what issue there would be having build artefacts in a single cache for more than one port.