On 08/09/2012 01:19 PM, walt wrote:
> > ...the ebuild is using only one CPU out of four, so this is taking > much longer than before. Ugh. Well, since there are at least four of you who don't have any problem with libreoffice it must be something on my two machines with the same trouble. This morning I noticed that perl was updated, so I ran perl-updater and now the libreoffice build seems (fingers crossed) to be building at normal speed using all CPUs again. The reason I think it was a perl problem is there are multiple processes going during a libreoffice build that look like this: perl -S /var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.6.0.4/work/libreoffice-core-3.6.0.4/solenv Before I ran perl-updater there was always one process marked <defunct> at the bottom of that list of perl processes, and now there seem to be four parallel perl processes in place of that <defunct> one -- I guess one for each CPU :) I'll let the build run while I go to work, hoping I have a working libreoffice when I get home. Thanks for the feedback.
