Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES="test" and finished?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running with full system FEATURES="test" on, and I have a couple of
> programs that depended on dev-libs/boost. The boost testsuite always
> fails in my computer due to insufficient disk space, I usually simply
> skip the test for boost and just go on with the merge. But today, I
> decided to let the testsuite run to completion; so in preparation for
> that, I plugged in an external harddisk and made it so that
> /var/tmp/portage points to an empty disk image in the external harddrive.
>
> This setup works ok, and the testsuite is still running, however I saw
> now that the disk image's is now taking ~18 GB (and counting) while "du
> -sh" on /var/tmp/portage counted ~13GB.
>
> So, the question is, has anyone successfully compiled and run
> FEATURES="test" on boost and knows how much space the tests eat up in
> the end?
>
> I am suspecting of the possibility that maybe a testsuite gets into an
> infinite loop while writing a file or something constantly eats up
> diskspace. Or is it just that boost has an outrageously too extensive
> testsuite and it will turn out ok if I just left it to run.

I'm trying it now, I have 64gb free in /var/tmp so I hope that's enough... :)