[oe] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: Kill CCACHE. Implicit, automatic use of things which can fail is bad.

[Martyn Welch]

Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:02:31PM +0930, Graham Gower wrote:
>   
>> 2009/8/20 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger+oe at freyther.de>:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 20 August 2009 05:24:37 Chris Larson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> To re-enable, set CCACHE = "ccache ".
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <clarson at mvista.com>
>>>>         
>>> Could you elaborate on the need of that? Which platforms do you deal with that
>>> break due the usage of ccache?
>>>       
>> I run Slackware 12.2, whose build of ccache does not seem to be
>> accepted. I don't recall the exact mechanism of failure, but
>> shasum-native fails before getting to any other pacakges. Currently I
>> have to move the ccache binary out of my $PATH or OE tries to use it.
>>     
>
> Same exact problem has been reported many times with RedHat-based distros as 
> well - it just fails to build shasum-native (the very first package) w/o any 
> meaningful messages...
>   
I have also suffered random failures that disappear once ccache has been 
uninstalled on at least Ubuntu 8.10.

Martyn

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