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

[Steven Elling <ellings@kcnet.com>]

On Sunday 16 November 2003 01:55, Andrew Cowie wrote:
<snip>
>
> 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...

I had the problem of running out of space and the OO build failing because 
of it.  I have since freed up enough space to complete the install, but I 
was curious about something else.

In the event that the OO build fails, can the keepwork feature be used to 
essentially start the build again where it left off.

I know that make will check the modified time on files to determine if 
object files and such should be recompiled, but does qmake or whatever OO 
is using to do the build do the same?  Or, are key files modified that 
force the recompile of all object files?


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