Re: [gentoo-user] initial compile time

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:37 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> I forgot to mention there are things that /significantly/ improve
>> compile times. Top of the list is /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs.
>
> Does this mean that, if the build fails, you build again not on tmpfs so
> as to capture build.log?
>

Just copy the build log off the tmpfs.  Portage doesn't remove it
automatically.  Unless you reboot the system before inspecting it the
file will still be there unless you have a really overzealous
tmpreaper.

(Or if you're doing the build in a systemd unit.  I actually build
binary packages overnight from a unit and was always puzzled about why
the build was gone from /var/tmp/portage when I'd inspect errors.
Then I realize the default is for units to have a private /var/tmp -
so it was gone when the unit terminated.  That can of course be
disabled.)



-- 
Rich