12720 – Ability to "short circuit" 'ebuild compile' and 'ebuild install' directly to that step

Bug 12720 - Ability to "short circuit" 'ebuild compile' and 'ebuild install' directly to that step

Summary: Ability to "short circuit" 'ebuild compile' and 'ebuild install' directly to ...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-25 22:25 UTC by Aaron Stone
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:37 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Adds two commands, compileonly and installonly (shortcircuit.patch,1.14 KB, patch) 2002-12-25 22:27 UTC, Aaron Stone	Details \| Diff
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Description Aaron Stone 2002-12-25 22:25:18 UTC

In the case of a compile that fails for a correctable reason, or other such
circumstances, it would be useful to be able to restart the emerging process
right at the particular point of failure, without having to run the configure
and compile all the way from the beginning. Depending upon the software package,
after a configure make will always start from the top and rebuild everything...

Comment 1 Aaron Stone 2002-12-25 22:27:19 UTC

Created attachment 6742 [details, diff]
Adds two commands, compileonly and installonly

Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-26 01:29:35 UTC

export FEATURES="noauto"
ebuild /..../blah.ebuild [setup|compile|install|package|qmerge]