Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:15:19 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] [bsd.port.mk] ports ccache build support Message-ID: <20120805121519.1f69cebf@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgm2vpaAvUup=TOa0ap6hfffDu9bARugs73RX%2BUMyx6wHA@mail.gmail.com> References: <501C7572.3020707@FreeBSD.org> <20120804141607.55249f62@gumby.homeunix.com> <501D34DF.2070205@FreeBSD.org> <20120804232102.201cde8e@gumby.homeunix.com> <CAF6rxgm2vpaAvUup=TOa0ap6hfffDu9bARugs73RX%2BUMyx6wHA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 17:38:44 -0700 Eitan Adler wrote: > On 4 August 2012 15:21, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:42:39 -0500 > > Bryan Drewery wrote: > > >> > Having a default ccache directory in the makefile that's > >> > different from the default documented in the ccache man page > >> > seems needlessly confusing to me. > > +1 for /var/cache > > > And since large root file-systems seem to be increasingly > > popular, /root/.ccache may seem reasonable, and people may run > > cache -M on that. > > remember that its possible to build as a non-root user, but install as > root, or similar. Using $HOME for any aspect of the build isn't a > good idea. Why isn't it? In that scenario /var/cache wouldn't be writable.
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