Re: [gentoo-user] Different build options for specific packages

[wabe]

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I read where someone did this but I can't find it now.  I looked at
> > the wiki and did some startpage searches, no luck.  Here goes:
> >
> > I generally let emerge build packages in parallel. This works
> > because a lot of packages are small and don't take long to build or
> > much room either.  However, there are a few exceptions.  For me,
> > Seamonkey, Firefox and Libreoffice cause issues.  I would like
> > those to build one at a time instead of at the same time.  I've had
> > times where all three have updates but having two of them at the
> > same time occurs pretty regular.  I thought I recalled this needing
> > to be in package.env but my test didn't work.  I put this in
> > package.env:
> >
> > www-client/seamonkey  MAKEOPTS="-j1"
> > www-client/firefox  MAKEOPTS="-j1"
> >
> > Since I'm here, you can guess that emerge didn't like that.  So,
> > either I'm putting that in the wrong place, the wrong way or
> > something.  Oh, I looked at the wiki and I didn't see things like
> > this.  I just went with what little I recalled which seems to be
> > not correct.
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction here?  Examples would be
> > nice because I may want to disable portage on tmpfs as well, for
> > Libreoffice at least.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
>
> I found another howto.  That ended with this setup:
>
>
>
> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/package.env
> www-client/seamonkey  ../env/single.conf
> www-client/firefox  ../env/single.conf
>
>
> root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/env/single.conf
> MAKEOPTS="-j1"
>
>
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> >From my reading, I put the setting in the env directory file and
> >the
> package names in package.env.  Thing is, it still tries to build them
> both at the same time.  Once I get these two to work, I'll add
> libreoffice to it.
>
> My first test gave a error message.  I added the ../env/ part and it
> doesn't give a error but it doesn't recognize it either.  I'm missing
> something.  My eyes ain't real good today, allergies, so I may be not
> seeing something right.

I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you talking about 
emerging several packages at the same time and, if so, are you sure 
that -j defines how many packages are build simultaneously?

I know that there exists a FEATURES option for make.conf called 
"parallel-install". But I never used this feature or read something 
about it, so all I know is that "-j" is an option for the "make" 
command. It defines how many jobs are running simultaneously when 
you compile a single program.

--
Regards
wabe