Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Binary ebuild for openoffice-ximian

[Andrew Cowie <andrew@operationaldynamics.com>]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:01, suka wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:47, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > That is a from-source ebuild. I have no idea where and if binary builds 
> > are offered...
> 
> As I have been providing the openoffice-ximian ebuilds to the forums
> quite some time before they went into portage, I think I can say there
> is quite some interest. But I agree it could be difficult... 

I've been using Suka's ebuild of openoffice-ximian for a while now;
there were some warts (I think in OO, not OO-x) in the release
candidates, but openoffice-ximian-1.1.0 is AWESOME.

On my system the binary .tbz2 came in at 73.5 MB - not the kind of thing
that can be casually made available on anything other than a high
bandwidth mirror. I agree with Paul that given the nightmare dependency
graph behind this thing, providing binaries is a limited-value
proposition because of the likelihood of a dependency mismatch - but
nevertheless, if we can find a way to help people with slower machines,
all to the good.

WARNING!

For anyone considering trying building this thing, they really aren't
kidding when they say it needs > 4.5 GigaBytes 
to build and 12-14 hours to build and packages. It's a real bummer to
run out of space somewhere around the install/buildpackage/merge step.
This is an excellent time to use

 	PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/partition/with/lots/of/space/tmp"

on the command line before emerge...

Also, if you're not using the buildpkg feature by default, then do
yourself a favour and use the -b argument to emerge so that if you need
to re-emerge it later "to fix some little thing" you don't have to sit
through that build again.

Thanks again to suka... 

AfC
Sydney

P.S. Paul, is what's in portage now based on Suka's work? If not, what,
if any, significant differences are there about the ebuild?


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