On Sunday 9 February 2025 16:44:55 Greenwich Mean Time Jacques Montier wrote: > Le dim. 9 févr. 2025 à 15:36, Håkon Alstadheim <ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> a > > écrit : > > 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. > > Thank you all for your feedback and advice. > For testing, > - emerge media-libs/opencv-4.10.0 > - some time later CTRL+C to stop compilation > > Then I followed Jack's advice > - ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.10.0.ebuild compile > - ebuild /var/db/repos/gentoo/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.10.0.ebuild > install - ebuild > /var/db/repos/gentoo/media-libs/opencv/opencv-4.10.0.ebuild qmerge > > Everything worked fine, thanks a lot. > > Good evening to all, > > Best regards, > > -- > Jacques
Unless you have a good reason to run each emerge stage separately, you can just use 'merge' for all of them - you can check 'man ebuild' for an explanation.
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