Installation :
sudo apt-get install -y ccache
echo 'export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH"' | tee -a ~/.bashrc \&& source ~/.bashrc && echo $PATH
Your path (at least the beginning) should look like:
/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/cuda-5.5/bin/:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
And g++/gcc should now point to:
which g++ gcc/usr/lib/ccache/g++/usr/lib/ccache/gcc
Configuration :
If you want no no limit to number of files and size of the cache:
ccache -F 0 && ccache -M 0
Show cache statistics:
ccache -s
Empty the cache and reset the stats:
ccache -C -z
Usage :
Everytime you call gcc or g++; ccache is called.My mistake was that I didn't delete already compiled files. Just delete all your cmake/output files and configure/compile again.
Your ccache shouldn't be empty then. Now try a make clean
and make
and you'll see it is much faster than re-compiling everything thanks to the cache.