dpkg-buildpackage and debian/rules should stay away from enabling or disabling ccache/distcc. It is your responsibility, not that of the packaging to enable the use of ccache/distcc. I personally enable ccache permanently like so: $ grep ccache ~/.* /home/pabs/.bashrc:export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" I don't have enough computers to run distcc. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise