Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES="test" and finished?

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@×××××.com> wrote:
>> I'm running with full system FEATURES="test" on, and I have a couple of
>> programs that depended on dev-libs/boost. The boost testsuite always
>> fails in my computer due to insufficient disk space, I usually simply
>> skip the test for boost and just go on with the merge. But today, I
>> decided to let the testsuite run to completion; so in preparation for
>> that, I plugged in an external harddisk and made it so that
>> /var/tmp/portage points to an empty disk image in the external harddrive.
>>
>> This setup works ok, and the testsuite is still running, however I saw
>> now that the disk image's is now taking ~18 GB (and counting) while "du
>> -sh" on /var/tmp/portage counted ~13GB.
>>
>> So, the question is, has anyone successfully compiled and run
>> FEATURES="test" on boost and knows how much space the tests eat up in
>> the end?
>>
>> I am suspecting of the possibility that maybe a testsuite gets into an
>> infinite loop while writing a file or something constantly eats up
>> diskspace. Or is it just that boost has an outrageously too extensive
>> testsuite and it will turn out ok if I just left it to run.
>
> I'm trying it now, I have 64gb free in /var/tmp so I hope that's enough... :)
>

After almost 1.5 hours it is at its 22000th target and using 14G of
/var/tmp so far... I'll keep waiting.