On Monday 13 November 2006 19:47, James Colby wrote: > > Also, try unpacking the source somewhere and doing a manual > > compile. Then at least you'll know if it's portage making the > > difference or not. > > > > alan > > -- > > Alan, thanks for the suggestion. I tried this and the compile failed > with an error related to the system time. I checked the system date > and it was *WAY* off...after fixing the date / time the emerge of > device-mapper took about 1.5 minutes. Thanks for all the help > everyone.
I just spent 10 minutes digging through your last post with the compiler output and spotted the system time issue, and replied. Then saw this post. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever learn :-) <note to self> always always always read all the posts in a thread before replying. It often saves time and effort </note to self> :-) alan -- [email protected] mailing list

