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 :-) :-)