buck shared cache capabilities

[AlexDreyfuss]

hi,

I have been trying to configure buck to use a shared cache on the network. when on both machines i put my project on /home/local/bucktest/application it works great. when i change the dir to the project to lets say /home/local/bucktest1/application the access to the cache fails. probably because the rule key hash changes.

Is there a a way that buck includes only relative paths into the hash computation? It would be too hard to force developers to use buck on preset dirs and paths?

[swgillespie]

Is there a a way that buck includes only relative paths into the hash computation?

No, this is very much by design; in order for the cache to be truly shared between machines in the presence of tools that occasionally encode their current working directory in their outputs, it would be incorrect to not do so. As far as I know there's not an option that would turn this off.

[AlexDreyfuss]

so how would you share cache between different users, with different home or root directories? for example /homes/tom and /homes/bob

Also, out of curiosity, what tools occasionally encode their current working directory into their outputs?

Thanks for the quick response!