Faster IcedTea builds

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:02:45AM -0400, Francis Kung wrote:
> >>I've just committed a change into the IcedTea repository providing a 
> >>fast-build option: if you pass --enable-fast-build to configure, it will 
> >>build with -O0 (instead of -O3) and will skip building all the javadoc.
> >>
> >>This speeds up the build by about 30-50% for me, which may be useful to 
> >>those doing development work.
> >
> >Isn't ccache a better option to make the build faster?
> 
> I wasn't familiar with ccache, but it does look very promising, yes! 
> This sounds really cool... thanks for mentioning it =)
> 
> I'll open a ticket in the IcedTea bugzilla for it in case anyone wants 
> to add this.

You dont need to added support for it explicitely. ccache provides gcc,
g++, etc. wrappers. It can be used transparently. I use it for my
packaging work a lot.


Cheers,
Michael
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