On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:58 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:56 +0300 > Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > If a parallel install is overwriting things on / whilst a package is > > > compiling, things are already horribly broken regardless of this > > > switch. PMS explicitly forbids that from happening. > > > > That's that. And then there's the real world. > > Yes, and in the real world, if you change / whilst something is > compiling, things break.
Except with dependency tracking they might not. Anyways, I was "whatever" on the --disable-dependency-tracking already. > > > > Olivier Crête also has an outstanding comment about a maintainer > > > > possibly not wanting that disabled in case of patches applied. > > > > Could use some elaboration on that thought, or comments in > > > > replies. > > > > > It's always possible to override it if necessary. > > > > No. It is possible to not use econf and write all of the options it's > > supposed to be passing manually. Probably missing something or > > otherwise being horribly long. > > Uh, you just do econf --enable-dependency-tracking. I apparently did need that nap. Yeah, that should work. I believe you forgot the topic of --enable-fast-install. -- Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: l...@gentoo.org Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
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