From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OCPhY-0006EX-BT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 04:07:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86568E0665; Thu, 13 May 2010 04:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CD9E0665 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 04:05:57 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsMFAA8X60vO+KVh/2dsb2JhbACRbow6crxshRIEiRyDFA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,219,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="64099932" Received: from 206-248-165-97.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.165.97]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 13 May 2010 00:05:56 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 13 May 2010 00:06:17 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:06:17 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 Message-ID: <20100513040617.GB3159@waltdnes.org> References: <201005071436.24672.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> <1273277062.28479.6.camel@Nokia-N900-02-8> <201005072317.04856.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> <20100508081823.46d84e14@digimed.co.uk> <20100509222831.GB24191@waltdnes.org> <20100510003321.2ecb4f7e@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100510003321.2ecb4f7e@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 1221288f-c741-4e87-8ca4-e893c1cf2aac X-Archives-Hash: 8383635ae57644e78c8bedd22bc8a55f On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:33:21AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:28:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > 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. > > I can't recall the last time I needed to use MAKEOPTS=-j1, but if you > do set it you can get back the time you lose by using the jobs option > with emerge. That way you get parallel compilation, but of separate > packages. Something just occured to me. At the risk of sounding paranoid, is there an absolute guarantee that... - if package A has dependancies Y and Z... - the compile for A won't start before Y and Z are built and installed This could be especially ugly for my new system installs. I usually install text-console mode only, followed by "emerge gimp", which pulls in X and a whole bunch of other stuff as dependancies. Portage handles this process very well right now. -- Walter Dnes