Description of problem: ccache fails out if it is run as 'cc' without a writable home directory. This breaks the automatic kernel builds done by the RPMFusion group's akmods tool, which attempts to run builds as the 'akmods' user with a non-writable /var/cache/akmods home directory. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.1.4 How reproducible: Attempt to do an akmods build of an kind with ccache installed. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Tears. Expected results: A shiny new nvidia-kmod, or what-have-you. Additional info: I've filed a bug report with the akmods folks at RPMFusion, but having something like ccache put before /usr/bin/cc in the default PATH is very problematic unless it can fail safely in the absence of a writable home directory. I would argue that ccache should behave identically to /usr/bin/cc even in the case of a non-writable home directory, or else ccache should not be set as the default cc when the development-tools meta package is installed in Fedora. Note that this is only a problem with akmods because it uses a non-root account for doing its builds. If a root process attempted this, it would have used /var/cache/ccache successfully, but this is not achievable by a non-root script such as akmodsbuilder.
This will be fixed in ccache 3.1.7.
(In reply to comment #1) > This will be fixed in ccache 3.1.7. It doesn't seem to be fixed in 3.1.7: $ cd /tmp $ cat foo.cc #include <cstdio> void foo() {printf("Hello, world\n");} $ export HOME=/root # non-readable, non-writable $ unset CCACHE_DIR $ /usr/bin/g++ -c -o foo.o foo.cc (no stdout/err output, no problems) $ ccache /usr/bin/g++ -c -o foo.o foo.cc ccache: failed to create /root/.ccache (Permission denied) 3.1.7 mentions some changes related to unwritable CCACHE_DIR when CCACHE_READONLY is set, but it doesn't seem to affect this scenario: $ CCACHE_READONLY=1 ccache /usr/bin/g++ -c -o foo.o foo.cc ccache: failed to create /root/.ccache (Permission denied)
My bad. However, I'm torn about what to do with this. On one hand, I'd like ccache to be backward compatible, but on the other hand, I'd like ccache to have good defaults. I think that complaining about failure to create things in the cache directory is a good default, because otherwise the effects of misconfiguration will be silently hidden. I'll start a discussion on the ccache mailing list for more feedback.
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