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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird warning message when emerging gcc
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 17:13:19
Message-Id: 1b281e2e-7e8f-138d-8c4f-6493235c1126@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird warning message when emerging gcc by "Håkon Alstadheim"
1 On 12/31/2016 06:59 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Den 30. des. 2016 14:44, skrev lee:
5 >> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> writes:
6 >>
7 >>> A world update emerged gcc-5.4.0-r2 (update from 5.4.0). At the end of
8 >>> the build, I got this:
9 >>>
10 >>> * Python seems to be broken, attempting to locate CHOST ourselves ...
11 >>> * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5.4.0
12 >>> ...PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting is invalid: 'bzip2'
13 >>> PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting from make.globals is invalid: 'bzip2'
14 >>>
15 >>> I'm not seeing how python is broken here (works fine), and why
16 >>> PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND is invalid. Can someone explain what's going on
17 >>> here?
18 >>
19 >> Since there is such a command, is it possible (and worthwhile) to use
20 >> lbzip2 instead of bzip2 with portage? (lbzip2 is ridiculously fast when
21 >> you have the cores and the RAM ...)
22 >>
23 >>
24 >
25 > What is the difference between theese two? :
26 > ----
27 > * app-arch/lbzip2
28 > Available versions: 2.3-r1 ~2.5 {debug symlink}
29 > Homepage: https://github.com/kjn/lbzip2/
30 > Description: Parallel bzip2 utility
31 >
32 > [I] app-arch/pbzip2
33 > Available versions: 1.1.12 ~1.1.12-r1 ~1.1.13 {static symlink}
34 > Installed versions: 1.1.12(kl. 16.51 +0100 09. nov. 2016)(symlink
35 > -static)
36 > Homepage: http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
37 > https://launchpad.net/pbzip2
38 > Description: Parallel bzip2 (de)compressor using libbz2
39 >
40 > ----
41 > I just picked one at random.
42 >
43
44 lbzip2 is generally faster when I looked into it, but it likes gobs of RAM.
45
46 Dan