On Montag, 5. Mai 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > extremly long. So long that you have to start ooo several times a day for > > a year so that the saved startup time equalizes the time spent compiling > > it.
> "ccache" in make.conf is enabled and MAKEOPTS has a reasonable value, I > have set it > to "-j2". I follow the rule MAKEOPTS=<number CPUS>. But in the case of > openoffice, the > ebuild overwrite this value with "-j1". For the version 2.3.x I had set > the variable > WANT_MP but with version 2.4 it breaks the build. But how you can see > in the following, > that's only a minor problem. or not. So everything bigger than -j1 breaks the built. Which makes dual core cpus useless to speed up compilation. > > wolf-di6400 0(0) 03:04 PM ~ # qlop -gH openoffice > openoffice: Fri May 2 16:22:23 2008: 1 hour, 20 minutes, 38 seconds > openoffice: Sat May 3 04:06:11 2008: 1 hour, 19 minutes, 12 seconds > openoffice: 2 times emerge -p openoffice-bin|genlop -p These are the pretended packages: (this may take a while; wait...) [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0 Estimated update time: 2 minutes. > > If you are even able to. Openoffice is a bitch to compile. Even the > > slightest change might break the compilation. It really, really sucks. > > IMHO openoffice is a nice example for everything that is wrong. > > I can't this confirm. go to b.g.o and see the countless reports. Or the forums. Or have a look at the ebuild for all the crap that is there just to get the POS ooo compiled. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list