On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 22:11 +0100, Alexander Mieland wrote:
> > > Perhaps it would be better to copy the emerge.log to /tmp?
> >
> > please god no
> 
> WHY not?
> 
> Everyone seems to only can say no and not to make some suggestions.

Well, for one, you shouldn't be copying log data to unprotected areas of
the file-system.  Also, as someone else said (sorry, I don't feel like
finding who) there are machines where gcc may have never been merged, or
the logs have been rotated.

> the complete project BAS/c is build on this buildtime-database. This was 
> the generally idea behind this whole project.
> To provide a really special feature to any user. The ability to determine 
> how long a merge of a never installed before package could take.
> For this we've choosen the same system as LFS. LFS works with the "SBU" 
> wich stands for the factor how long a package would compile in 
> comparison with the compiletime of bash.
> 
> The GU is *our* factor which uses gcc to calculate these GUs for the 
> packages.

Honestly, I like the idea of using bash, simply because it gives people
a way to compare compile times in Gentoo and LFS, but that really isn't
that important.

> But hey, sure, we can also take every other package or sourcecode to 
> determine this GU.
> We've chossen gcc, because this is on really *every* gentoo-system 
> installed and big enough to get an accurate GU.

It isn't on every Gentoo system, that's the problem.

> Perhaps we can create a little benchmark-program which will be compiled 
> when basc was run for the first time. This could also be an idea.

I think it would be the best option, for reasons already stated.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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