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Ccache news
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Ccache 4.1
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Release date: 2020-11-22

New features
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- Symlinks are now followed when guessing the compiler. This makes ccache able
to guess compiler type “GCC” for a common symlink chain like this:
`/usr/bin/cc``/etc/alternatives/cc``/usr/bin/gcc``gcc-9`
`x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-9`.
- Added a new `compiler_type` (`CCACHE_COMPILERTYPE`) configuration option that
allows for overriding the guessed compiler type.
- Added support for caching compilations with `-fsyntax-only`.
- Added a command line option `--config-path`, which specifies the
configuration file to operate on. It can be used instead of setting
`CCACHE_CONFIGPATH` temporarily.
Bug fixes
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- The original color diagnostics options are now retained when forcing colored
output. This fixes a bug where feature detection of the `-fcolor-diagnostics`
option would succeed when run via ccache even though the actual compiler
doesn’t support it (e.g. GCC <4.9).
- Fixed a bug related to umask when using the `umask` (`CCACHE_UMASK`)
configuration option.
- Allow `ccache ccache compiler ...` (repeated `ccache`) again.
- Fixed parsing of dependency file in the “depend mode” so that filenames with
space or other special characters are handled correctly.
- Fixed rewriting of the dependency file content when the object filename
includes space or other special characters.
- Fixed runtime detection of AVX2 support, not relying on the sometimes broken
`__builtin_cpu_support` routine.
- Added missing parameters to a log call, thus avoiding a crash when it is
found out at runtime that file cloning is unsupported by the OS.
Portability and build fixes
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- The ccache binary is now linked with `libatomic` if needed. This fixes build
problems with GCC on ARM and PowerPC.
- Fixed build of BLAKE3 code with Clang 3.4 and 3.5.
- Fixed “use of undeclared identifier 'CLONE_NOOWNERCOPY'” build error on macOS
10.12.
- Fixed build problems related to missing AVX2 and AVX512 support on older
macOS versions.
- Fixed static linkage with libgcc and libstdc++ for MinGW and made it
optional.
- Fixed conditional compilation of “robust mutex” code for the inode cache
routines.
- Fixed badly named man page filename (`Ccache.1` instead of `ccache.1`).
- Disabled some tests on ancient Clang versions.
Other improvements and fixes
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- The man page is now built by default if the required tools are available.
- Use CMake `A2X_EXE` variable instead of hardcoded `a2x`.
- Improved build errors when building ccache with very old compiler versions.
- Fall back to version “unknown” when Git is not installed.
- Documented the relationship between `CCACHE_DIR` and `-d/--directory`.
- Fixed incorrect reference and bad markup in the manual.
Ccache 4.0
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Release date: 2020-10-18
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