[TriLUG] cool app for package developers or frequent compilers

[Benjamin Reed]

If you are someone that likes to package software up or like to build 
things often from CVS, I found a spiffy little tool from one of the 
samba folks that's just plain incredible.

It's called "ccache", and it acts as a wrapper for gcc, and keeps a 
cache of recently compiled objects.  It bases it's cache on the 
command-line options, the pre-processor output of all of the included 
headers and such, the warning output of the build, and a couple of 
other things, so it always errs on the side of caution, and it speeds 
up compiles *immensly*.

You can grab it at http://ccache.samba.org/

I'm using it for my packaging on MacOSX, and it's helped out a LOT.  It 
would also help people who package for other packaging systems (RPMs 
etc) since it lets you keep all the work you've done on building, even 
though RPM deletes the build root (and others do the same).