Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 14:05:29 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:27:33AM +0000, Mick wrote:
> > > > Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge
> > > > portage, etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output from
> > > > emerge anymore no matter what. Other than that everything is working
> > > > fine, but I do need to see actual output.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone know what to do to fix this?
> > > 
> > > Did you enable parallel builds? I.e. added --jobs and/or --load related
> > > options to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? In that case emerge uses this kind of
> > > output, because obviously you can’t display multiple builds at the same
> > > time in one window.
> > > 
> > > The -v flag, to my knowledge, only affects the output of -p and -a,
> > > adding information like used and changed use flags and file size to
> > > download for each package to be installed.
> > 
> > I've got both -j and -l set in my MAKEOPTS and portage is quite verbose
> > as it has always been.  I don't know if EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS has a
> > different effect.
> 
> Indeed it has. MAKE_OPTS contains options to make, whereas
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS contains those for emerge. Both have a -j option. If
> you tell -j (jobs) to emerge, it will do as many emerges simultaneously.

Oh I see!  Thanks for explaining this.

But then if there were say 5 ebuilds running in parallel and all their output 
printed in the same terminal, it would be almightily difficult to untangle the 
spaghetti that may show up in an error?
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Regards,
Mick

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