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On Fri, 2015-03-13 at 06:32 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Joakim Tjernlund posted on Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:26:59 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> > No, there can be no copy of sources for what I want. It just gets in the way having to do that. |
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> Copying to tmpfs is copying to memory, and copying to memory in /some/ form must occur in ordered to |
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> operate on the files at all, that is, with any build at all, so I don't see the problem, at least if |
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> you're |
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> working on a machine with say 2+ gigs RAM. (There might be problems on a |
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> half-gig RAM machine, but that's not particularly appropriate as a developer machine in any case, these |
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> days, unless you're talking embedded, which you didn't mention.) |
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> But of course, gentoo/portage lets you do it your way too, as demonstrated by the hacks you posted. =:^) |
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When you are developing SW you do the edit/build cycle often and it is really |
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annoying to copy a big src tree, rebuild everything (as timestamps, deps changes), move to another |
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src to do any debugging etc. Try it on your own development by just copying you src tree every time |
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you want to build, you get very tired of it real soon :) |
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Don't get me wrong, portage is a wounderful pkg mgr, I just want to extend its use to be more |
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helpful during development too, without having to do really ugly hacks like I showed you. |
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Jocke |