On Friday 24 March 2006 02:46, TN wrote: > Hi all, > I see that emerge has a resume option - but it only compiles from where > the the previous emerge was stopped and when you issue a resume, it > starts at the beginning of the next package to be emerged. > > Is it possible to get emerge to continue from where the actual compile > was broken (ie. not recompile from the package beginning, but rather > from within the package itself ?) > I find a constant problem in that large packages take so long to > compile, that I need to shutdown my laptop before an emerge is complete > (to go home or whatever), and then I have to start from the beginning > again.....OO takes around 6 hours for me, and it seems that this would > be reasonable to implement so that emerges could be resumed from the > last source file where the compilation was halted ? > The option should be able to ask emerge to start compiling the package > without un-compressing and cleaning up the last compile I'd assume. > > thanks. > Trevor No, that's not really possible.
However, you can use ccache to save the compilations and you could put the laptop in standby to continue after moving it. But I'm affraid those are your only options. -- Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl
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