On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:55:37AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/09/2015 08:41, Bryan Gardiner wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 07:29:39AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> On 21 September 2015 05:58:20 CEST, Bryan Gardiner <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Hi gentoo-users, > >>> > >>> I thought I would set FEATURES=keeptemp in make.conf so I would have > >>> build logs around for reference. This causes problems with Haskell > >>> packages, which fail during the second build after setting this, > >>> because the build's temp/ hasn't been cleaned from the previous build: > >>> > >>> <snip> > >>> > >>> Am I wrong in expecting ${T} to be wiped at the start of a build, > >>> regardless of the package, so that this isn't a problem? I'm not sure > >>> why you'd want old temp/ state to carry forward to the next build. > >>> > >>> - Bryan > >> > >> Build logs usually (I didn't change anything for that) end up in > >> /var/log/portage > >> > >> Did you check there? > > > > All I have there is /var/log/portage/elog which is because I > > explicitly added "save" to PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM. I want the build.log > > files, not just the elog output, do you have those in > > /var/log/portage? > > That's not quite what PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM does. That is for elogs, not > build logs. You need this: > > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
Aha, of course it makes sense that Portage has a proper feature for this, and that the warning for keeptemp is (perhaps) justified :). Thanks all for your help, that plus FEATURES="split-log -unmerge-logs" is perfect. Cheers, Bryan
