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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1
Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 18:28:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100509222831.GB24191@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100508081823.46d84e14@digimed.co.uk>

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:18:23AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Fri, 7 May 2010 23:16:47 -0700, Jim Cunning wrote:
> 
> > > FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ...
> > > 
> > > Worked for me on multiple systems
> 
> > Thanks for the tip. It seems to have done the trick, because emerge is
> > running far longer beyond the point it originally failed with the error
> > above.
> 
> I have removed ccache from all my systems, the minutes of computer time
> it saved were not worth the hours of my time it consumed when it broke
> things.

  Ditto for setting MAKEOPTS to -j1.  Every once in a while, somebody
runs into a problem that is solved by it.  I finally decided to let the
builds take a little bit longer, in exchange for saving me problems with
"unreproducable errors".  This setting does not affect the final binary;
just how long it takes to build.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-09 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 21:36 [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 Jim Cunning
2010-05-08  0:04 ` William Kenworthy
2010-05-08  6:16   ` [SOLVED] " Jim Cunning
2010-05-08  7:18     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-08 11:58       ` Dale
2010-05-09 22:28       ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2010-05-09 23:33         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-13  4:06           ` Walter Dnes
2010-05-13  7:44             ` Alan McKinnon
2010-05-13  8:17             ` Neil Bothwick

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