Re: 7+ days of dogfood

From: Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:41:00 -0700 (MST)
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Lars Engels wrote:

> I also dislike that src build times increased over the years since I run
> CURRENT on my notebooks (starting 7-CURRENT, now 10-CURRENT).
> Wouldn't it be possible to add a
> DO_NOT_BUILD_CLANG_AND_GCC_IF_NOTHING_CHANGED= yes switch to src.conf?
>
> Building clang takes ages and gcc is also pretty big...

devel/ccache really makes a gcc system buildworld a lot faster.  I don't 
know why more people don't use it; why recompile so many things that 
have not changed?

My recollection of testing it with clang was that it did not make much 
of an improvement.  Could be better now.
Received on Tue Feb 12 2013 - 14:41:11 UTC

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