Mike, I can understand from this what you need, however I still don't know how to 'capture' those last few lines short of writing them all down, and the compile seems to fail and stuff goes past so fast it scrolls off the top of the screen.
Sorry, I'm not more capable of describing it. Thanks Richard On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 07:54 am, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 06:37, richard terry wrote: > > I've not received any replies on where to find the log file for the > > compile. The emerge.log simply noted the failure. I downloaded another > > copy of the kdeaddons from another mirror and it crashed at the same > > place. I couldn't copy the file anywhere, but it said something I think > > on line 117. Also I noticed, just before these messages that it said > > something about lib ogg vorbis having been moved, however it all scrolled > > off the top of the screen too quickly to catch. > > > > Does this help? > > What is wanted is the last few lines of the output *before* the compile > failed, *and* all the lines of errors as it died. Generally, you'll get > one error, and a short cascade of additional errors as the compile dies. > If the compile generated a warning, but continued it'll probably have no > impact. > > As for re-downloading from another mirror, that's a waste of effort, as > portage checks the MD5 sum of the downloaded file before it unpacks it. > So you can be sure you've got the correct file. > > > Damn, I sound mean. Sorry, rather irritated after 9 hours at work alone, > with 3 more to go, and tired :( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
