On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:56 +0300 Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > If a parallel install is overwriting things on / whilst a package is > > compiling, things are already horribly broken regardless of this > > switch. PMS explicitly forbids that from happening. > > That's that. And then there's the real world.
Yes, and in the real world, if you change / whilst something is compiling, things break. > > > Olivier Crête also has an outstanding comment about a maintainer > > > possibly not wanting that disabled in case of patches applied. > > > Could use some elaboration on that thought, or comments in > > > replies. > > > It's always possible to override it if necessary. > > No. It is possible to not use econf and write all of the options it's > supposed to be passing manually. Probably missing something or > otherwise being horribly long. Uh, you just do econf --enable-dependency-tracking. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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