Re: [gentoo-user] How to see make output when emerging a package?

[Arve Barsnes]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 19:23, Dex Conner <cantcuckthis@××××××××××.de> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I've tried setting --quiet-build=n and --quiet=n but to no avail
> because I have --jobs set to higher than 1. I've checked
> /var/log/emerge.log but that's only the emerge output not the make
> output that I'm looking for. What am I missing here?
>
>
You're missing that the make log is in a separate place for each package.
Usually in /var/tmp/portage somewhere. As you noticed, setting --jobs
higher than 1 automatically sets --quiet-build, and makes it unable to
activate.

It will tell you after portage is finished about any failed packages, and
where that log is, but if you want to see all that output while it's
compiling you'd need to script a way to automatically check for new
build.log files in /var/tmp/portage as new package compile jobs starts and
monitor them.

Basically, my advice is to use --jobs=1 if you want to see the output.

Regards,
Arve