[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Remove support for shared configuration cache

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Nov 5 09:21:52 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> The configuration cache shared between packages, while being in
 Thomas> principle a nice idea to speed-up the configuration of packages by
 Thomas> avoiding repetitive identical checks, turned out to be unreliable due
 Thomas> to the subtle differences between similar but not identical checks in
 Thomas> different packages. After spending some time trying to fix those, we
 Thomas> concluded that supporting the shared configuration cache is definitely
 Thomas> too hard and too unreliable, and that we'd better get rid of it
 Thomas> altogether.

 Thomas> This patch therefore removes the shared configuration cache
 Thomas> infrastructure and usage.

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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