Bug 12720

Summary:	Ability to "short circuit" 'ebuild compile' and 'ebuild install' directly to that step
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Aaron Stone <aaron>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) <carpaski>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Adds two commands, compileonly and installonly

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]