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On Friday 24 March 2006 02:46, TN wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I see that emerge has a resume option - but it only compiles from where |
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> the the previous emerge was stopped and when you issue a resume, it |
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> starts at the beginning of the next package to be emerged. |
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> Is it possible to get emerge to continue from where the actual compile |
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> was broken (ie. not recompile from the package beginning, but rather |
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> from within the package itself ?) |
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> I find a constant problem in that large packages take so long to |
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> compile, that I need to shutdown my laptop before an emerge is complete |
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> (to go home or whatever), and then I have to start from the beginning |
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> again.....OO takes around 6 hours for me, and it seems that this would |
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> be reasonable to implement so that emerges could be resumed from the |
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> last source file where the compilation was halted ? |
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> The option should be able to ask emerge to start compiling the package |
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> without un-compressing and cleaning up the last compile I'd assume. |
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> thanks. |
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> Trevor |
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No, that's not really possible. |
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However, you can use ccache to save the compilations and you could put the |
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laptop in standby to continue after moving it. |
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But I'm affraid those are your only options. |
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Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl |
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