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 1NynrU-0004tc-NB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:05:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59273E0BA8 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com (mail-yw0-f182.google.com [209.85.211.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6999E0929 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so2313316ywh.32 for ; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:15:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=tg42tXa3QE2veEJTh5lf5+fRa7Bhvn9yrCAkYJvIyz8=; b=swA1mxiTxF3EMVdgvoKR8ZnyuVn+T9su5m23wa9uthcfLRv44fjcPDEMV9usPoOpa+ lXx6zyL6vHdtAX96LZseAQeG1H6XOncSjjMNOIxoByrPgcIOjCis+1NbgLRAngoxWy5K eUPrf9euWh0H+rgIMsf/y1djVbwrI5pa4U4pU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=lZhR3aoy7IjMXC9Dxnb1Zd8pQklEBLiqDcu0NqUOlLAlvKZmSJYM+h05JrLs6Nr0R7 XTqfg8Zisp2eDTGQFfHfH/4dc1GFHuN4KzEYpB/Nk0PHkbcLE+HOfjYFQCWhF3LV7Da5 zhU8dslyqdrfO0eajknws7dkpvFq6POg69Ync= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.191.16 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 07:15:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:15:38 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ccc6742c49f154cb Received: by 10.150.61.4 with SMTP id j4mr6320324yba.303.1270476938318; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES="test" and finished? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 8e1071a8-2a05-40fe-ad74-7660bff2fb61 X-Archives-Hash: 7003d9f6b8b4a55370ce0034ec9bac67 On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Lie Ryan 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... :)