Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel - take 3

Larry McVoy
2002-05-17T22:40:05Z

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:34:31PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:16:22PM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > I suppose you want ccache then. kbuild-2.5 may save two minutes of your
> > one hour build. The current kbuild's problem is not that it recompiles too
> > many files, but rather too few sometimes (in particular with modversions).
> > (And yes, ccache won't work too well if you move your trees around, since
> > *both* build systems use absolute paths. That needs fixing)
>
> Hmm. That kind of blows. Well, someone else's problem (or is it?). I'll
> take it for what it can do now and plod along.

In the for what it is worth department, we like ccache here at BitMover and
converted the CVS tree to BK just for fun.

http://ccache.bkbits.net

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