I have a friend that recently compiled OO on his 400mhz AMD w/ 128MB of
RAM. It took either 3 or 5 days ... we lost track :)
~Mike
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, G�zim Hoxha wrote:
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:38:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: G�zim Hoxha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org
>
>
> --- Ben Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> > ;)
>
> I�ve got a 1400Mhz AMD Athlon computer with 256RAM,
> and it�s been compiling from 8pm last night an is
> still compiling today [10:35am], I don�t know what�s
> going on. Even the gentoo installation didn�t take
> this long!
> This could be because I�m doing from the kde konsole,
> and I was asking if someone knew if I could stop the
> compiling in the kde konsole and continue it, after I
> long out from kde in a virtual konsole(<ALT+CTRL+!).
>
> >
> > 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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> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${GXzim}
> > > > 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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