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

[Dale]

wabe wrote:
> 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
>
>


I think you are right.  I also have this setting in make.conf:

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j8
--quiet-build=n -1 --unordered-display"

I think that is the -j option I want to change.  I forgot about the
purpose of the other one.  I'm pretty sure that one is passed on to make
as you said and the one I want to change is the emerge opts.  I tested
that change, it still didn't work but at least I'm using the right one
now. 

Update on current settings: 


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
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-j1"
 
 
root@fireball / #



Thanks Wabe.  At least it should be closer.  I'm just wondering if I can
still do this or not.  Maybe it doesn't work that way anymore. 

Dale

:-)  :-)