Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

[n952162]

On 2020-02-20 00:36, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:28:54 GMT n952162 wrote:
>> On 2020-02-19 23:11, Michael Jones wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:00 PM n952162 <n952162@×××.de
>>>
>>> <mailto:n952162@×××.de>> wrote:
>>>      On 2020-02-16 17:34, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>>      > On Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:40:43 GMT n952162 wrote:
>>>      >> On 2020-02-16 16:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>>      >>> On 2/16/20 10:19 AM, n952162 wrote:
>>>      >>>> Is there an option to inhibit that the build directories
>>>
>>>      (presumably,
>>>
>>>      >>>> those in /var/tmp) be retained instead of being cleaned up?
>>>      >>>
>>>      >>> FEATURES=noclean says it will do that
>>>      >>
>>>      >> Ah, an environment variable.  I hadn't thought of that.
>>>      >
>>>      > Don't you have a FEATURES= line in make.conf?
>>>
>>>      No ... should I?
>>>
>>> There are lots of features that you can enable or disable.
>>>
>>> Here's what I have, for example:
>>>
>>> FEATURES="${FEATURES} buildpkg binpkg-multi-instance clean-logs
>>> compress-build-logs compressdebug installsources parallel-fetch
>>> parallel-install split-elog split-log nostrip userfetch usersync"
>> Looks interesting.  What are those things and where are they documented
>> ... I looked at global and local USE flags and, e.g. installsources
>> wasn't there.
> man make.conf
>
> but ... only if you want to change defaults, like adding "noclean".
>
Ah yes, of course.  Thank you.