how long should gnome take to compile?

jimjamjahaa · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

because its been going for a day and a half....

Hikaru79 · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, that's pretty normal. Some packages, especially KDE, Gnome, and OpenOffice, take an insane amount of time to compile. Nothing much you can do about it

(Except use the kdeenablefinal flag, but that only helps when compiling KDE)

If you have multiple computers in your network, read up on distcc so you can learn how to spread the compiling load among the network; that'll speed it up for you

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jimjamjahaa · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

how much longer should i expect to wait? because i need my laptop for college tomorow

(gmt)

also i heard you can cancel and resume it? this sounds dodgey to me.... any thoughts on that?

-BarneY- · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 91

1,5 days for comiling gnome is much too long, unless you have a very old system. Emerging gnome is way faster than compiling KDE or OOo; the comparison between these packages and gnome does not fit here, although I haven't compiled gnome for a year - maybe its extremely grown since then.

Gnome contains of many packages, which packages take such a long time?

edit: I'd predict 3-5 hours at max for compiling gnome at an up-to-date system (P4 or comparable).

jimjamjahaa · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

1.8 gig amd semperon

i typed

emerge gnome

so you are saying it shouldnt take this long??? its not like its crashed...

(well actually it was emerge --verbose gnome)

-BarneY- · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 91

Hm, ok, depends on what you have already.

If you have nothing than a basesystem - it will compile xorg and many user-programs like mozilla, epiphany, evolution (2 browsers, 2 mail/new-clients *lol*), gnome-games, -terminal, and so on. That could take a bit longer.

Thats because gnome is a metapackage, which installs not only the gnome-core, but also many add-ons and big programs (like mozilla, evolution). There is a smaller leightweight package called gnome-light, which installs only the gnome-core with some small core-applications (like nautilus). That should be build much faster. But then you have to emerge your programs (browser, mailer,...) on your own. But it will give you more control over your installed packages, too. And you don't have programs installed you don't want to use.