At Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:47:51 -0500 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ron Bickers wrote:
>> On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>
>>>Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds
>>>for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the
>>>Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day and decide to do it
>>>manually.
>> I have this concern as well.  Also, when emerging multiple packages,
>> the helpful and sometimes necessary output at the end of each merge
>> is easily missed as the next package begins.  It would be nice to at
>> least have these messages logged somewhere.  Are they?  Can they be
>> without patching portage?
>>
> mkdir /var/log/portage
> echo "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage" >> /etc/make.conf

Although I didn't check this particular case, it is normally true that
emerge generates *two* logs in the directory for each build.  The
large one contains the normal stuff (e.g., compiler output); the small
one contains the important tidbits such as those mentioned above.

allan
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