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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>
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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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