[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4695) recompiling on client change

["Andy Smith" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:34:20PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:51:19PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> > 
> >>Mike Kaufman wrote:
> >>
> >>>I find it extremely annoying that I need to recompile common/ and server/
> >>>after passing --enable-client=* to autogen.sh. This really shouldn't be
> >>>necessary.
> >>
> >>I, too, am annoyed by this.
> > 
> > 
> > I have found ccache (http://ccache.samba.org/) very useful in this
> > case.
> 
> Ingenius.  On my machine this cuts down the time for a complete rebuild 
> from 3m to 30s.  And it is incredibly easy to use via the symlink method.
> 
> The only drawback is that the ~/.ccache directory can take up many 
> megabytes.

It is very very nice.  The size of the .ccache directory can be
limited but I am not sure how to do this with the symlink approach.

Also great for source-based operating system distributions!