On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400
> David Relson wrote:
>
> ...[snip]...
>
> > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your
> > operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small
> > programs and compiles them. I can see how caching compilation
> > info would help with this.
>
> I ran a quick test with ccache and ./configure. Using bogofilter's
> configure script (because it was available):
>
> before installing ccache:
>
>  3 runs of ./configure averaged 6.07s
>
> ... installed ccache ...
>
>  next run took 6.5 sec (slower than before)
>  next 3 runs averaged 4.96s (18.4% better than before)

All your configure runs were for the same package, right?

>
> conclusion: ccache _does_ help ./configure

It does not for different packages, AFAIK. And that was the question
of the OP.

Uwe

--
Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed!
--
gentoo-user@(protected)