Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

["Håkon Alstadheim" <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no>]

Den 08.02.2025 15:47, skrev Jacques Montier:
>  Hello everyone,
>
> Is it possible to stop a compilation midway in the case of a very long 
> compilation and then resume it from the same point without having to 
> start over from the beginning ?
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
For the big compiles I set PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/pt/ , which I have created 
and which is NOT a tmpfs, so it will survive a reboot (and I don't have 
enough ram anyway) . You might also want to check FEATURES, either 
globally or on a per-package basis, make sure you don't have fail-clean. 
Watch out so your newly permanent tmpdir does not fill up.

Then, if it dies for some reason, I do for example:

<code> ebuild `equery w www-client/firefox ` merge. </code>

make  or cmake or whatever will do the best it can to pick up where it 
left off.

P.S: Search the web to find out to set FEATURES and PORTAGE_TMPDIR in 
the environment on a per-package basis, or just prepend the settings to 
your command-line.