Hi,

I have recently began compiling custom-kernels and have come across ccache and distcc, two excellent tool to speed up the compilation. I was wondering whether ccache takes care that I had specified (or unspecified) optimizations like -Os, -O1, -O2, etc.? In other words, if I first apply, say, -O2 optimization and allow ccache to cache the optimized object file, and later if I compile the same code using, say, -Os, will ccache use the previously cached data, and thus ignore my new settings?

Ideally, ccache should allow the code to be completely recompiled with the new optimization settings, and then cache the new files, along with the previous ones, so that if I ever want to compile the code using either -Os or -O2 optimization, I would not have to wait for the complete code to be compiled again. Is that the case?

First of all, here is a reference to a description of how ccache works. That should answer most of your future upcoming questions ;-)

To answer your specific question: ccache does not try to be more clever than you are. If you specify new options (e.g. -Os), ccache will not be able to find any cached results in its cache (because you only cached -O2) so that ccache will recompile your code.

Yes, think so. Unless you clear the cache, you'll keep all the previous results.

Best regards,
Andi

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Thanks ForzaItalia2006, that's exactly what I wanted !