POSTINSTALL There are two ways to use ccache. You can either prefix your compilation commands with ccache or you can let ccache masquerade as the compiler by prepending /usr/lib/ccache to your $PATH environment variable. The first method is most convenient if you just want to try out ccache or wish to use it for some specific projects. The second method is most useful for when you wish to use ccache for all your compilations. You can also set CC and CXX like so, export CC='ccache gcc' ; export CXX='ccache g++' to /etc/pkgmk.conf But this method can break on some packages not expecting a space in CC or CXX. You might also want to change the ccache directory, using the CCACHE_DIR environement variable. (I personally use export CCACHE_DIR="/var/cache/ccache"). You may also want to use distcc as a backend to ccache by setting export CCACHE_PREFIX="distcc" Also if you plan to use this same cache between different crux versions and compiler versions, you can do something like this export CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK="%compiler% -dumpversion; crux" to prevent cache errors.