[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/14] enable config.cache per default

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 10:55:00 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:00:35PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>Le Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:59:37 +0200,
>Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> a écrit :
>
>>  Bernhard>   It speeds up configuration considerably.
>>  Bernhard>   If a package breaks due to wrong cache-entries, then the
>>  Bernhard> broken other package has to be fixed, not the innocent
>>  Bernhard> bystander!
>> 
>>  Bernhard>   Put short: There is absolutely _no_ need to ever turn
>>  Bernhard> the cache off unless you hack on autotools itself and goof.
>> 
>> In that case, why do we even have the config option?
>
>Originally, because when the change was introduced, some packages were
>failing due to incorrect dependencies. And the contributor didn't want
>to break many packages at once and preferred to have a intermediate
>step where this is an option.
>
>I think we can now get rid of the option. Or introduce some kind of
>«Buildroot Hacking» menu/submenu where we put this kind of very
>advanced options that normal users shouldn't use, but that can be
>helpful for debugging. And when doing support, we could also ask users
>to enable the option that disables the cache to see if it fixes a
>reported failure.

i'd just leave it as knob, default y.
Note:
http://git.uclibc.org/~aldot/git/buildroot/commit/?h=misc&id=f4221a72ee2d10aa2376be1aae4ead05a44802de



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