Forever to "emerge kde"

scubacuda · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 111

How long does a typical KDE emerge last?

Last night, I ran "emerge -f kde" to grab source code, then ran "emerge kde." That was almost 24 hours ago, and it has been running nonstop since.

Is that typical of a KDE emerge? I've got a 966MHz Intel laptop.

i92guboj · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:48 am Post subject: Re: Forever to "emerge kde"

It depends a lot of your USE, but with that micro and support for arts, alsa, and from a fresh install it is more than possible, since a lot of deps may be needed, anyway only kdelibs compilations can last many ours.

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

Yeah, KDE's a pain to emerge. It's huge, it's C++, and it's usually huge. Really big. It probably took 24 hours on my P4 :'(

j79zlr · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:00 am Post subject:

Long ago I had built KDE from ports on an old P2 that I run FreeBSD on, it took 4 days, I use fluxbox now.

Between artsd not wanting to release control of sound and long compile times, I use either Gnome [heavyweight] or Fluxbox [lightweight].

MdaG · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

Emerging OpenOffice on my D800 took five hours so I can imagine KDE taking a lot of time. I'm running fluxbox myself.

Evangelion · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:26 am Post subject:

On my A64 3200+ with 1GB of RAm, emerging KDE takes about... 6-7 hours. I did it just yesterday when I upgraded to 3.3.2. Started it in 9-10am and it was finished in about 4pm.
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Boris27 · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:38 am Post subject:

The slowness is because of 2 reasons:

KDE is a HUGE project.
The GNU C++ Compiler is slow. Very slow. Allthough some of this is cured in GCC3.4.
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Gitler · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Kazan

on p4 took 1 night

antipod · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

It took one night for me as well on my 1.6 GHz Pentium-M laptop... but that was an KDE update so I only compiled the kde-packages

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

My Pentium3-800 has a record of 38 full hours of compiling to get KDE crunched

Im now trying it on my AMD64-3200 to see the improvements

Jengu · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 384

Short answer: Yes it is normal

We can always look forward to GCC 3.5 though. Better at optimization and faster compile time

FlumMmicH · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 58 Location: Sweden

got almost the same specs as Evangelion.. took the same amount of time for me.. its very huge.. well ill stick to fluxbox.. it is the best afterall
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