Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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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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