On 27 Apr 2025, at 01:28, Yusuf Yaman <nxjos...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > I am a new user of 15.0-CURRENT and just updated my source tree and > noticed that there are now files to be built that have the ".pico" > extension, as a ccache user, i was enjoying fast world/kernel builds but > these files doesn't seem to get cached to me and my world builds are > taking long time than ever. Is there a way to skip building these > ".pico" files? Thanks in advance and thanks for your efforts and work. > > I am on this commit. 6014596899c
We have been using .pico files for years now, so that shouldn't really a be a problem. At least, I hope not! However, if you did an incremental build, previously libllvm and friends were built from .o files (i.e. position dependent). These were then added to a static library, with a .a extension. Now libllvm and friends are built as shared libraries, therefore all the objects have to rebuilt as position independent (PIC), with a .pico extension. Similarly, a number of tools built under usr.bin/clang have been switched to position independent (PIE), therefore their objects also have to be rebuilt: instead of .o, these now use .pieo. In any case, ccache will still help if you do future rebuilds. It is only with this particular transition that a number of objects really have to be fully recompiled. -Dimitry
