Time to compile kde?

pwaring · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 99

Even if precompiled C++ headers cut 10% off the compile times it'll be worth it.

Any idea how I can stop this without breaking my system? It's getting late over here and I don't want to try to get to sleep in a stifling hot room by leaving my PC on.

jkt · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 6:59 am Post subject:

pwaring has probably "gnome" in his USE flags. See USE documentation (gentoo.org->documentation).

pwaring · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 99

Yes, I do have gnome in my USE flags, since (as I mentioned earlier) I didn't change the defaults because I didn't want to introduce even more problems.

In the end, I had to cancel KDE - hopefully it won't have broken anything. Now I'm just installing the contents of emerge -p kde individually so I know that they won't overrun, which is what I would have done in the first place if I knew it was going to take this long.

I don't suppose emerge has some way of forcing it to recursively get the dependancies, so when I do emerge -p kde it shows *all* of them rather than just the kde* packages (which in turn probably have a dozen dependancies each)?

dyqik · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:26 am Post subject:

Stop it with ctrl-c

Restart it after rebooting with emerge --resume (or probably emerge kde as well, as some of the dependencies are now there)

This won't prevent your box doing whatever it did before, as individual packages aren't installed until they've completely compiled. Especially as this is the first time you've installed most, if not all, of these packages.

pwaring · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 99

Well, since nobody told me otherwise beforehand, I stopped it with Ctrl-C anyway. Now I'm installing the dependancies beforehand - I know that erodes the power of emerge a bit (seeing as it usually gets the dependancies for me) but it's the only way to get large packages like KDE compiled in under 12 hours (which is generally the amount of time I have).

sapphirecat · Guru Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 376

KDE is so dog-slow it takes 5% more time for me to 'emerge -e world' with GNOME installed than it does to 'emerge kde'... (edit: GNOME 2.4 and KDE 3.2 were the exact versions involved.)
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øxygen · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

Use ccache and distcc an be happy. Beware of agressive compile options like -O3 as it will increase the Buildtime.
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