From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:21:52 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Remove support for shared configuration cache In-Reply-To: (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:31:25 +0100") References: Message-ID: <8739rg5dn3.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Thomas> The configuration cache shared between packages, while being in Thomas> principle a nice idea to speed-up the configuration of packages by Thomas> avoiding repetitive identical checks, turned out to be unreliable due Thomas> to the subtle differences between similar but not identical checks in Thomas> different packages. After spending some time trying to fix those, we Thomas> concluded that supporting the shared configuration cache is definitely Thomas> too hard and too unreliable, and that we'd better get rid of it Thomas> altogether. Thomas> This patch therefore removes the shared configuration cache Thomas> infrastructure and usage. Committed, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard