On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:37 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I forgot to mention there are things that /significantly/ improve >> compile times. Top of the list is /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. > > Does this mean that, if the build fails, you build again not on tmpfs so > as to capture build.log? >
Just copy the build log off the tmpfs. Portage doesn't remove it automatically. Unless you reboot the system before inspecting it the file will still be there unless you have a really overzealous tmpreaper. (Or if you're doing the build in a systemd unit. I actually build binary packages overnight from a unit and was always puzzled about why the build was gone from /var/tmp/portage when I'd inspect errors. Then I realize the default is for units to have a private /var/tmp - so it was gone when the unit terminated. That can of course be disabled.) -- Rich
