On Thursday 30 November 2006 16:08, Dave Jones wrote: >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:18:35PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >make install does that for you > > > > I haven't done a "make install" in quite a while as it managed to > > trash me to the extent I had to boot in rescue mode from a cd and fix > > it. > >The usual way people screw this up is by not doing the 'make > modules_install' *before* the 'make install'. That's the fast path to > a busted initrd. > > > >timestamps and checksums of the source files (to find out if they > > > changed since the last build) and a cache of compiled objects in > > > ~/.ccache/ > > > > That dir doesn't exist here except in /root, and that listing doesn't > > indicate its useful to me. > >it'll get auto-created when you start using it. > > > Is this some utility I need to install to > > enable it? > >yum install ccache should dtrt. > > Dave Mmm, reading the manpage isn't very concise about how to use it. I don't have a (G)CC env var set, but it looks like that method could be used (something like "CC=ccache; export CC" maybe) , so I have to ask can it, so my scripts, which do all this with a "make bzImage" or "make modules" commands apparently wouldn't need any changes? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
