Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Unexpected side effect of GCC 4

[Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 08 November 2006 15:17, Duncan wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk> posted
> > I decided on an even simpler approach. As I don't really want all the
> > other stuff in /var/tmp to evaporate every time I shut down, I put /tmp
> > on tmpfs, with this entry in /etc/fstab:
> >
> > 	tmpfs	/tmp		tmpfs	nodev,nosuid,size=85%		0 0
>
> Does the 85% actually work as implied?  If so, I just learned something
> new. =8^)

Can't say yet. I got the info 
from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt.

> > Then I added these entries to /etc/make.conf:
> > 	BUILD_PREFIX="/tmp/portage/build"	# not sure I need this
>
> I don't think you do.  I don't have that var set here.

I was being cautious, having seen hints that setting a directory name 
doesn't necessarily also set any others below it.

> PORTAGE_TMPFS is a fairly new setting that may not have made it to stable
> portage yet. It doesn't appear to have made it into the make.conf manpage
> yet, but from make.conf.example:

[...]

Thanks - there's always one more place to look :-(

> Interesting [that PKG_TMPDIR] doesn't seem to be documented, and
> PORTAGE_TMPFS is in make.conf.example, but not in the make.conf manpage. 
> I should file a bug.

Perhaps. I may also complain about the inconsistency that some directory 
specifications are literal while others point to a directory above where 
data will actually be used.

-- 
Rgds
Peter
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