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Posted Jan 25, 2021 19:09 UTC (Mon) by andy_shev (subscriber, #75870)
In reply to: Overreactions? by smoogen
Parent article: The endless browser wars

ccache will help to save time for test builds until you be sure it's okay to go.

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Posted Jan 25, 2021 21:08 UTC (Mon) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (2 responses)

I worked on LibreOffice back when it was just a set of patches on the original OpenOffice called "ooo-build". Yes, ccache helps, but it's the difference between an 8-hour build and a 3-hour build. It's still painful when something fails at the 2:45 mark.

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Posted Jan 27, 2021 8:56 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

That looks like a broken build system. Any builder worth its name should be designed to pick up where it stopped and simply continue.

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Posted Jan 27, 2021 17:08 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

In local development, sure. But CI and (official) package builds are almost always done from-scratch.

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Posted Jan 25, 2021 23:46 UTC (Mon) by himi (subscriber, #340) [Link]

I'm pretty sure that anyone building distro packages is well aware of ccache (as well as all the associated things like distcc) - it's been a core component of large build systems for literally decades.