GCC compliing from archived sources

[Stulov Dmitry <stulovd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can compiler use project sources packed in archive? I have complex 
project with 2345 source .h and .cpp files. It is slow to copy them to 
over computers of network. Compiling form archive can speed up 
compilation by removing random access to hard drive and reduce the draft 
on a disk that is important to collect at the site of the source project 
and source-based distributions.