Chromium and qtwebengine have the longest build times that I have encountered
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 at 1:01 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > After my long time away from Gentoo, I thought perhaps some packages that > always took ages to compile would have improved. I needed to change to > ~amd64 anyway (dumb n00b mistake leaving it at amd64). So that's what I did > and let emerge do it's thing. > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going so > 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad as > openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took a > while, but I didn't record time. > > > What other packages have huge build times? > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > > I have some software you don't likely use that takes a while but one that > is common is qtwebengine or something. If it's not that one, it's qtweb > something. It takes about 4 hours, sometimes 5 or so. > > I think the software takes longer to compile so that we will build new > rigs. ROFL > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
