Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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qtwebengine! yes that one took forever also. It also said my 16G of RAM was
smaller than the 16G it needed. Weird.

Anyways I enabled a swapfile and left it to run overnight

Alan

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 9:31 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> After my long time away from Gentoo, I thought perhaps some packages that
> always took ages to compile would have improved. I needed to change to
> ~amd64 anyway (dumb n00b mistake leaving it at amd64). So that's what I did
> and let emerge do it's thing.
>
> chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going so
> 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad as
> openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took a
> while, but I didn't record time.
>
>
> What other packages have huge build times?
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
>
> I have some software you don't likely use that takes a while but one that
> is common is qtwebengine or something.  If it's not that one, it's qtweb
> something.  It takes about 4 hours, sometimes 5 or so.
>
> I think the software takes longer to compile so that we will build new
> rigs.  ROFL
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>


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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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