On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-07-28, Mick<michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
>>> emerge
>>>
>>
>> Is it any worse that OOo was?
>>
>> Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much attention.
>>
>>
>
> My build took about 3.3Gbs of drive space. I ran du just about 5 minutes
> before it finished so that is pretty close. I would say that 4Gbs should be
> enough at least on a setup like mine. You don't want to push your luck to
> far. lol
>
>>> and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
>>>
>>
>> A few days ago, it took me three tries on one of my machines to get
>> libreoffice to build. I think it ran out of disk space the first time,
>> though the error messages were rather misleading.
>>
>> The second time I deleted some stuff from the distfiles dir about half
>> way through the build, and it turns out they were still needed later
>> in the build).
>>
>> The third time, it worked. :)
>>
>>
>
> On my machine, it took this:
>
> root@fireball / # genlop -t libreoffice
> * app-office/libreoffice
>
> Thu Jul 28 12:33:11 2011 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1
> merge time: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 33 seconds.
>
> root@fireball / #
>
> I did stop it with a ctrl Z for about 5 minutes. I was deleting stuff to
> give it some more room. This is OOo:
>
> Tue Jul 5 05:15:01 2011 >>> app-office/openoffice-3.2.1-r1
> merge time: 50 minutes and 27 seconds.
>
>
> That's about a average. Some were binary installs. I can't recall why I
> did that now but it was since it only took a minute or so.
>
> That's the report from this rig. AMD 4 cores running at 3.2Ghz with 16Gbs
> of ram. No tmpfs this time. That wouldn't be fair since I had to stop it
> for a few minutes.
>
> Dale
Here is mine:
Wed May 25 10:07:18 2011 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2
merge time: 34 minutes and 10 seconds.
On my Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB of RAM using tmpfs. :)
Do those merge times include download time? I wonder...
