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<sect1 id="ccache">
<title>Usage of ccache</title>
<para>
- By default <command>pbuilder</command> will use the C compiler cache
- <command>ccache</command> to speed up repeated builds of the same
- package (or packages that compile the same files multiple times for some
- reason). Using <command>ccache</command> can speed up repeated building
- of large packages dramatically, at the cost of some disk space and
- bookkeeping.
+ It is possible to use C compiler cache
+ <command>ccache</command> to speed up repeated builds of the same
+ package (or packages that compile the same files multiple times for some
+ reason). Using <command>ccache</command> can speed up repeated building
+ of large packages dramatically, at the cost of some disk space and
+ bookkeeping.
</para>
<para>
- To disable usage of <command>ccache</command> with
- <command>pbuilder</command>, you should unset CCACHEDIR in your
- pbuilderrc file.
+ To enable usage of <command>ccache</command> with
+ <command>pbuilder</command>, you should set CCACHEDIR in your
+ pbuilderrc file.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Current implementation of ccache support has several bugs,
+ that CCACHEDIR must be owned by the pbuilder build user, and
+ parallel runs of pbuilder is not supported. Therefore it is
+ not enabled by default.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>