[ccache] ccache problem with CCACHE_BASEDIR

Blau, Eric Eric.Blau at tekelec.com
Tue Jun 5 09:47:17 MDT 2012


Hi folks,

I've been trying to use ccache with the CCACHE_BASEDIR option so that my fellow team members can take advantage of compiles that have already been done by each other from a different directory. I'm seeing ccache do inappropriate replacements of absolute paths with relative paths. Here is an example:

I have CCACHE_BASEDIR set to "/opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6" and I'm trying to compile from within a sub directory under that path. I have a directory with a bunch of header files in "/opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6/prod/include". When I do a build under, for example, "/opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6/src/core/comm/mx" I see this in the ccache log:

[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022515 21600] Working directory: /opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6/src/./core/comm/mx
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022520 21600] Base directory: /opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022525 21600] Unify mode enabled
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022530 21600] Direct mode disabled
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022551 21600] -g used; disabling unify mode
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022582 21600] dirname=/opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6/src/./core/comm
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022594 21600] full path=/opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6/src/./core/comm/mx
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022620 21600] Source file: MxServerLink.cxx
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022625 21600] Object file: MxServerLink.o
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022636 21600] Running preprocessor
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022655 21600] Executing /usr/bin/g++ -c -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wno-deprecated -Wno-trigraphs -Wno-strict-aliasing -march=x86-64 -g -Dlinux -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS -Wno-invalid-offsetof -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -I. -I../../../../../prod/include -I/usr/src/LiS/include -I/usr/lib/g++-include -I/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include -E MxServerLink.cxx
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022729 21601] Unlink /opt/cache/ccache/tmp/MxServerLi.tmp.cmdev3.21600.ii (as-tmp)
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.022815 21601] Unlink /opt/cache/ccache/tmp/tmp.cpp_stderr.cmdev3.21600 (as-tmp)
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.058076 21600] Unlink /opt/cache/ccache/tmp/MxServerLi.tmp.cmdev3.21600.ii (as-tmp)
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.058232 21600] Unlink /opt/cache/ccache/tmp/tmp.cpp_stderr.cmdev3.21600 (as-tmp)
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.058257 21600] Preprocessor gave exit status 1
[2012-06-05T11:33:20.058266 21600] Failed; falling back to running the real compiler


ccache is misinterpreting the "." in the absolute path and adding on extra ".." to the -I path in the compile, causing it to fail to find the header header files under "/opt/eblau/comcol/Tcm6/prod/include".

The buggy code looks to be in get_relative_path() in util.c:

    common_prefix_len = common_dir_prefix_length(from, to);
    for (p = from + common_prefix_len; *p; p++) {
        if (*p == '/') {
            x_asprintf2(&result, "../%s", result);
        }
    }

This code is not considering if there is a "/./" in the absolute path, but is blindly replacing this with "..". Has anyone else hit this? Would a patch be accepted for this problem if I fixed it? Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric



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