On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected > >> by this upgrade :-) > > > > I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything > > was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, so I > > then RTFMed, ran the commands from that web page and all was fine. > > Konqueror kept working fine, so I didn't need to remember how to work any > > of the lynx variants. > > You must be very lucky to have such a fast machine. > > I'm following the recipe on > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml > > which results in > > emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xcb-proto x11-libs/libxcb > emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xproto x11-proto/xextproto x11-libs/libX11 > x11-libs/libXext > > /usr/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh > > emerge -1 -j4 \ > $(for i in x11-proto/ x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext \ > x11-libs/libX x11-libs/xcb-util x11-libs/cairo \ > x11-libs/pango x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libgnomeui \ > x11-libs/qt-gui; do \ > qlist -IC $i; \ > done) -v > > revdep-rebuild -L libxcb-xlib.so.0 -- -j4 --ask --keep-going > > > This requires to rebuild 182 packages and proably several > hours on a modern PC (Phenom II 4 cores) > > (this includes some not so tiny packages like gcc (2 slots) > several gnome and kde libraries) > > (Sometimes, Gentoo is an expensive hobby) > > Helmut. >
-j4? if you want to give makeopts - that belongs into /etc/make.conf. I didn't even know that portage forwards those options
