sorry to hijack the thread even further... On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:04 +0000, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Ahem. 'scuse me: > > > > > > > > I have 5.5G for /var/tmp > > > > Wanna guess why? > > > > > > well, this is Gentoo, so "compile X" where X=<any damn large enough > > > package> probably still fits :) Openoffice for example? > > > > spot on :-) > > > > It's a throwback to the days when I DID compile OOo. > > > > Then one day I got a clue and found openoffice-bin. > > Building from source is cool. Building OOo yourself is just cruel. > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an > OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that > take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to start cross-compiling.
I've often used distcc between amd64 and x86 machines, for example, and had no problems (except that not enough is "farmed out"). cya, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
