On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:36:35PM -0400, Ben Sparks wrote:
> I have also found that OOo is much more stable when compiled from source
> than when just installed with pre-compiled binaries. I have some pretty
> aggressive Cflaggs (IMHO):
>
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr
> -falign-functions=64 -mfpmath=sse,387"
>
> And have not had any compile problems with OO, however that could be
> because the ebuild disregarded them, but whatever it still compiled for
> me. I would like to see a 1.1beta source ebuild instead of the binary
> merge. Good luck, also if you leave it to compile at night when you
> wake up it will be done, no lost productivity time ;)
Actually, I can see a 1.1 ebuild sitting here. I think I'll try it out -
I highly doubt that it'll finish at night though. As for the CFLAGS -
they're filtered out.
>
> On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 03:36, Ohad Lutzky wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:14:20AM -0300, Norberto BENSA wrote:
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> > > Saturday 14 June 2003 12:00 am
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I started merging openoffice and it�s really taking
> > > > it�s time [about 5 hours] and it�s not yet done. My
> > > > question is why can�t I go to openoffice.org and
> > > > download the tar ball and install it from there, it
> > > > would have take no more than 10 minuts I believe. Is
> > > > it better to merge packages than to download and
> > > > install them manually? Why does it take longer to
> > > > merge a package then to insall it from source (e.g.
> > > > openoffice)?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Errr... OOo 1.0.3-r1 took 9hs to build here (p31g, 256mb)
> > >
> > > "emerge openoffice-bin" if you don't want to wait. I did, but -bin-1.0.0 was
> > > soooo slooooowwww :-/ Now 1.0.3 compiled from source it really fast! :-)
> > >
> > > Norberto
> >
> > Is it really that much faster? I have a PIII 450mhz machine (5 hours?
> > heh, I wouldn't even expect KDE to compile in that time), so I've been
> > using the binary ebuilds so far. Also, IIRC, compiling OO from source
> > strips out the optimization. The OpenOffice.org source is pretty
> > fragile, and optimizations (especially GCC3's) will give you a good
> > chance of a failed compilation.
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