[Buildbot-devel] ccache and buildbot (was Re: Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision)

[Charles Lepple]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Bailey, Darragh <dbailey at hp.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: buildbot-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:buildbot-devel-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Charles Lepple
>> Sent: 20 August 2008 17:01
>> To: Kai Blin
>> Cc: buildbot
>> Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] ccache and buildbot (was Re: Buildbot 1.0:
>> The Shimmering Vision)
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>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Kai Blin <kai.blin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 20 August 2008 02:12:23 Charles Lepple wrote:
>> >> On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Kai Blin wrote:
>> >> > Wouldn't it make more sense to simply use ccache and do a full
>> >> > build every
>> >> > time? The samba build farm does that and it performs reasonably well.
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>> >> I'm curious, how are you integrating ccache into the build?
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>> > Not at all so far, but I didn't expect this to be complicated.
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> I wouldn't worry about trying to integrate ccache into buildbot, just set it up on the slaves to be available so that it's available to use for the buildbot user.

Oh, I'm definitely not proposing ccache integration with buildbot
upstream, just with the build configuration in master.cfg. I just
couldn't get ccache to work as well as I could on the command line
because of the $PATH issue.

>> >> The last time that I tried to set up ccache and buildbot (maybe
>> >> around 0.7.6?), I had trouble getting the path changes to propagate
>> >> into the buildsteps. (Using a set of symlinks in /usr/lib/ccache, as
>> >> provided by Debian/Ubuntu.)

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- Charles Lepple