Re: build time optimization

2012-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi, Then next step would be not to build external libs during LO build. There is a magic option: --with-system-libs. If you try this option on debian based systems (x86_64) you would probably end up with clucene dependency not met error. ACK. While hacking on dropping all bundled 3rdparty

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi, It is not that certain that ramdisk on linux really helps. ramdisk eat-up memory that cannot be used for fs-cache... so ramdisk will increase the cache-miss at the kernel level... I've used ramdisks for automatic mass builds on some other projects, and it really helped (IIRC factor 10).

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 09:23 +0200, David Ostrovsky wrote: I'm trying to accelerate LO (developer) build on linux_x86-64 system. :-) one systematic approach to this might be to try to unwind which complex[1] headers are most included and see if, in fact, with some more strategic forward

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-25 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-05-24 19:02, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Noel Grandinnoelgran...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running a tinderbox with a ramdisk on Windows - reduces build time dramatically. can you post an How-to ? (and possibly some numbers) Note: I do not have enough

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:23 AM, David Ostrovsky d.ostrov...@idaia.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to accelerate LO (developer) build on linux_x86-64 system. Before you point me to wiki (distributed build, ccache and friends) and tell me to use ramdisk: I already did it all and it is still need to

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread Noel Grandin
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: I have not tested ramdisk on Windows, so I do not know how effective it is. I'm running a tinderbox with a ramdisk on Windows - reduces build time dramatically. ___

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Noel Grandin noelgran...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: I have not tested ramdisk on Windows, so I do not know how effective it is. I'm running a tinderbox with a ramdisk on Windows - reduces

build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread David Ostrovsky
Hi, I'm trying to accelerate LO (developer) build on linux_x86-64 system. Before you point me to wiki (distributed build, ccache and friends) and tell me to use ramdisk: I already did it all and it is still need to be optimized ;-) There are many disable configure options already, like

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 05/24/2012 09:23 AM, David Ostrovsky wrote: I'm thinking about another magic configure option, like --with-external-lib-directory=/opt/libo this would install all dependend libs to this directory during first build and this would *survive* the make clean call, so the next time all external

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Thursday 24 of May 2012, David Ostrovsky wrote: Then next step would be not to build external libs during LO build. There is a magic option: --with-system-libs. If you try this option on debian based systems (x86_64) you would probably end up with clucene dependency not met error. ... But

Re: build time optimization

2012-05-24 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi David, On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:23 AM, David Ostrovsky d.ostrov...@idaia.de wrote: I'm trying to accelerate LO (developer) build on linux_x86-64 system. Before you point me to wiki (distributed build, ccache and friends) and tell me to use ramdisk: I already did it all and it is still