On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:38, you wrote:
Hi Gentoo freaks on the list![ ... ]
I've tried to emerge OpenOffice on my Gentoo system from the install fest, but it allways crashed after 2 or 3 hours of compiling. After the 3rd attempt I've outcommented the CFLAGS in my make.conf, because at the begin of the emerge process there is an info saying that OpenOffice is very sensitiv to aggressive optimization parameters. Now that I've tried to emerge it without any optimization for the 3rd time and it still crashes, I somehow don't know what to do next. The last "few" lines of the CL output are
=============Here it is:--------------^````````````````````````````````^
Building project sch
=============
/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/sch/sdi
mkout -- version: 1.3
date: write error: No space left on device
dmake: Error code 2, while making 'Shell escape'
echo: write error: No space left on device
Which means that your disk is full and you can't write any more!
How much free space did you have when you started? My compile failed for the same reason and I had 1.2 Bytes or there abouts. Does anybody know how much free space is needed to compile OOo?
Silly me! Chris was right, of course. I didn't even think about not having enough space on my disk, because I've had much more packages installed on my Debian system with the same partition size. I didn't take in account that a Debian system installed via Knoppix has neither stored the source nor the .deb files of all the large packages, though. I've removed some things from my disk and started over with 2.2 GB, but that still wasn't good enough. This time it only took longer for emrge to fill up my root partition. On the third attempt I moved all non-oo distfiles to another partition, which gave me 2.6 GB free disk space, and this time it worked :). That should roughly answer your question about the needed disk space. Surprisingly it took only between 6 and 7 hours to compile OpenOffice, which is much shorter than reported from many sides.
Thanks for your help!
Greetz, Conrad.
