From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPTlt-00050V-Et for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:28:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBA7AE048A; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7976AE048A for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so3771922rvf.46 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:28:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eYRg3pyplOXSrFw+FejdfHkTDAQgzM3DcsKIiJBYChM=; b=O6BqTvisRWH3bwbjig7bPtZru0wH/WYa2GymE/P8b+VCgaSqO6+xqyO5wMP6taWxnI gTUl+0Sou/hAOfSSUAaIRvynelhUd5Ba/+GbB8WJE074DgKM0GJIr8OV3vlKPzTHmEzF ETFhHPW/zQqMGpWtt31yxaMeKIHPn4fxswWU8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=KF+yNc0p9Vhr9SKLXsPhsG76DX7g6pSHx58rE00tsgLiN58vhmdFN6JiHHa4uIHxBX LT6AT8/63sGQQTAog9hGe6pyYv1YX5W6GhcEoyEHbr/NVV0cgfToreh9dtoUdXWjiw1L GUpyWMWZtHtx4N7/fiVBAqy794pkAk7jpGbo0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.82.20 with SMTP id j20mr1063538rvl.190.1232508531081; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:28:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <49767252.1010908@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:28:51 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a634424a4f7de0aa Message-ID: <58965d8a0901201928i2cc96699r757d0dbb0841d31@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 33628276-40e0-4068-a355-f9fb53f3bef8 X-Archives-Hash: 80dacdc216dbb24cc80575405a00436b On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-21, Dale 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