Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:45 am, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shaun Lipscombe wrote: If you emerge a program and it fails.. and you then re-emerge it, is there a way to tell emerge to continue compiling from where it left off using the .o files that are already compiled?

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: If you emerge a program and it fails.. and you then re-emerge it, is there a way to tell emerge to continue compiling from where it left off using the .o files that are already compiled? OpenOffice has failed on me twice now.. and on a PIII laptop starting at Square 1 ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:25, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: OpenOffice has failed on me twice now.. and on a PIII laptop starting at Square 1 , again and again is consuming a lot of time! You should really consider openoffice-bin. OOo is a behemoth package that takes six hours to compile on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Holly Bostick
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: * Holly Bostick wrote: Actually, emerge does compile from where it left off in some respect; it does start the process from the beginning, but if the section is found to already be compiled, it is not recompiled; Portage just goes on to the next part. Compiling OO.o just

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 11:25 schrieb ext Shaun Lipscombe: If you emerge a program and it fails.. and you then re-emerge it, is there a way to tell emerge to continue compiling from where it left off using the .o files that are already compiled? ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:43:10 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile ebuild /path/to/ebuild install ebuild /path/to/ebuild qmerge ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge will do it. -- Neil Bothwick (A)bort (R)etry (S)ell it pgpLDsu056bz7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 11:25 schrieb ext Shaun Lipscombe: If you emerge a program and it fails.. and you then re-emerge it, is there a way to tell emerge to continue compiling from where it left off using the .o files that are already compiled? ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaun Lipscombe wrote: | * Holly Bostick wrote: | | |Actually, emerge does compile from where it left off in some respect; it |does start the process from the beginning, but if the section is found |to already be compiled, it is not recompiled; Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:01:26 +0100, Karsten Baumgarten wrote: Not so weird after all. You are running out of memory while compiling openoffice.org. The kernel tries to free up some memory and thus is happy to kill everything he thinks is not necessary (including GNOME, X, ...) to keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 12:49 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:43:10 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile ebuild /path/to/ebuild install ebuild /path/to/ebuild qmerge ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge will do it. You're right, I misunderstood the

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 12:50 schrieb ext Bastian Balthazar Bux: Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile maybe I'm remembering wrong but compile before to start issue the equivalent of a make clean If it's wrong please post, it's usefull to know. Yes, it is. It starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 12:50 schrieb ext Bastian Balthazar Bux: Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile maybe I'm remembering wrong but compile before to start issue the equivalent of a make clean If it's wrong please post, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:01:25 +, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: Either start the emerge from a virtual console or a screen session. That way the terminal won't be closed when the WM shots down and the compile will continue. Well I decided to use ssh, since even if it disconnects me I'll at

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Mark Brier
Quoting Leif B. Kristensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You should really consider openoffice-bin. OOo is a behemoth package that takes six hours to compile on my 3.0 GHz P-4. I flushed it after the third recompile and emerged openoffice-bin instead. Except for the install time, I can't notice any

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:26, Mark Brier wrote: I beg to differ, compiled Ooo runs much faster than the binary version. It's a long compile, but worth it IMO. Took about 6 hours on my athlon-xp 2000 with half a gig of ram (ximian version). I'm using plain text editors for all my

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Bob Sanders
Anyway.. I have a 512MB swap partition, I was running top and I wasn't even using that much swap.. I have 256MB RAM in the laptop.. Does that still seem like I'm running out? Yes. There is too little combined memory. Things like gcc, glibc, and firefox have peak memory requirements of

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: Anyway.. I have a 512MB swap partition, I was running top and I wasn't even using that much swap.. I have 256MB RAM in the laptop.. Does that still seem like I'm running out? Yes. There is too little combined memory. Things like gcc, glibc,

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaun Lipscombe wrote: | | Anyway.. I have a 512MB swap partition, I was running top and I wasn't | even using that much swap.. I have 256MB RAM in the laptop.. | | Does that still seem like I'm running out? | You should try your emerge of OO without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Bob Sanders
I have a system with 128mb + 256mb of swap. It has been enough to compile everything including OOo. I've seen (very rarely) the swap usage to go up to about 150-200mb, but it has never run out of memory yet. The reason for this may be that I don't use gnome or kde on that computer and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Matthew Cline
You should try your emerge of OO without a desktop running. This will reduce the the amount of memory that is used by the desktop. If you use gdm: rc-update del gdm default replace gdm with whatever desktop manager you are using then reboot and you should have a text login. Login

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Tero Grundström
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: Sorry, just reporting what I've observed on an amd64 system while running Enlightenment, with a 1280x1024 jpeg background, 2 Eterms and 1 top. If so, how come I've been able to compile all this stuff on my box...? It also depends on whether c++ and