Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice 3.4.4: required HDD space

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:09 AM,  <v_2e@ukr.net> wrote:
>  Hello!
>  I decided to upgrade LibreOffice this week to the verstion 3.4.4.
>  Before trying to build this package, emerge performed the pre-check
> of available space on my hard disk - 9GB. I did have this amount of
> free space on the drive, but I noticed that after about 8 hours of
> compiling it took only ~4 GB on my HDD. First of all, I thought that it
> was compiling *really* slowly and that it hadn't even made a half of
> the job. However, after about a half an hour it finished with success
> and I noticed that altogether it took about 4.5 GB on HDD.
>  So it checked 9GB (and earlier versions of LO indeed needed almost
> such amount of free space), but took only as much as 4.5 GB.
>
>  The question is: why?

I'll venture a guess that it may have approached 9GB either with some
short-lived files, or *would* have approached 9GB with a different USE
flag or other configuration combination.

> P.S. Today I tried to install LO v.3.4.4 on the machine with about 6 GB
> of free space. Emerge performed its regular pre-check and refused to
> build the package. I changed the
>    CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="9G"
> to
>    CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="5G"
> in "libreoffice-3.4.4.2-r1.ebuild" and everything went fine.

Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to the size required being dependent on
USE flag combinations.

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