On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:09 AM, <v...@ukr.net> wrote: > Hello! > I decided to upgrade LibreOffice this week to the verstion 3.4.4. > Before trying to build this package, emerge performed the pre-check > of available space on my hard disk - 9GB. I did have this amount of > free space on the drive, but I noticed that after about 8 hours of > compiling it took only ~4 GB on my HDD. First of all, I thought that it > was compiling *really* slowly and that it hadn't even made a half of > the job. However, after about a half an hour it finished with success > and I noticed that altogether it took about 4.5 GB on HDD. > So it checked 9GB (and earlier versions of LO indeed needed almost > such amount of free space), but took only as much as 4.5 GB. > > The question is: why?
I'll venture a guess that it may have approached 9GB either with some short-lived files, or *would* have approached 9GB with a different USE flag or other configuration combination. > P.S. Today I tried to install LO v.3.4.4 on the machine with about 6 GB > of free space. Emerge performed its regular pre-check and refused to > build the package. I changed the > CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="9G" > to > CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="5G" > in "libreoffice-3.4.4.2-r1.ebuild" and everything went fine. Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to the size required being dependent on USE flag combinations. -- :wq
