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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:26:33 +0200
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From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: <jose.quaresma@oss.qualcomm.com>, <docs@lists.yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual/system-requirements.rst: add ccache
 in distros
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Hi,

On Mon Aug 31, 2026 at 11:58 AM CEST, Jose Quaresma via lists.yoctoproject.=
org wrote:
> Looking at the Yocto docs, ccache is missing on Debian/Ubuntu
> and OpenSUSE but is in all the others.
>
> The ccache can improve significantly the builds speeds when we can't
> take advantage of the bitbake sstate cache, in such scenario we need
> o compile the code. The cache storage needs to be available from the
> previous builds so we need to store these ccache artifacts temporary
> on our permanent storage.
>
> The ccache is required to build "-native" packages in oe-core
> because it requires HOSTTOOLS +=3D "ccache".

Thanks for the patch. Actually, it makes me wonder if we should rather do t=
he
opposite and remove this for all distros, as this doesn't sound like a host
"requirement" to me.

Antonin