Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
> On 2009-01-21, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's funny, I have read a lot of people complain that the binary is the
>> same way but compiling from source works.  Interesting.  The reason I
>> was told I should compile my own is because it was more stable than the
>> binary.
>
> The first time I tried installing OOo, I did the binary
> install. It wouldn't run, so since then I've always built it.
>
>> How do you figure that OOo from source is not supported?
>
> I've been wondering that as well. I checked the package
> database and the OOo ebuild is marked as stable for x86.  In my
> book, that's "supported".  Of course that's not be the same
> thing as "practical" for some machines (I believe my OOo emerge
> just passed hour 31).  It would be interesting to know how much
> further it's go to go, but as long as it's done in a week or so
> that'll be good enough.  I remember building binutils, gcc,
> X11, emacs, and so on from sources on a 25MHz 68000 with 4MB of
> RAM -- that took some patience as well.

Latest OOo 3.0 source compile for me took 1hr 34 minutes on my
dual-core E6600 overclocked to 3ghz with 8 gigs of RAM :P

i don't know what that translates to in your machine speed. I have
6000 bogomips for each core according to /proc/cpuinfo (I know it's
not a benchmark)

Paul