qtwebengine has over 30,000 items to compile; too long

[tckosvic]

After updating last week where I upgraded profile to 23.0 and which took 33 hours to rebuild, I thought update today would be short. Except, qtwebengine was an included item in the emerge. That package has 30,000+ separate items that need compiling, linking and installing.

It takes hours to do just that package on an i7 with 5 cpus devoted to emerge. That seems excessive.

Wiki suggests that making a binary for qtwebengine has been a problem. Not sure why that is so because my computer makes a binary satisfactorily but it just takes forever.

Couldn't qtwebengine be broken down into separate modules where the only one needing a rebuild might be one out of a bunch. I can't believe that more than a few items were changed out of 30,000 since last week when it was last rebuilt.

This might make the gentoo purists mad but this is an absurdly long task just for one module. Much longer than the kernels as far as I see.


Thanks for any ideas. tom kosvic

[sdauth]

Hello,
Do you really need qtwebengine ?
You might be able to get rid of it entirely to avoid those huge compile times. Personally I avoid everything that hard depend on it. Even with jumbo-build, it takes too much time with my potato cpu.
What "equery d qtwebengine" says ?

[tckosvic]

Based upon suggested equery command, equery says "freecad" utilizes qtwebengine. I do have uses for that.

Equery also said that "pyside2" utilized qtwebengiine. I don't knowingly utilize that.

tom kosvic

[sdauth]

I see. Well, freecad "gui" use flag pulls qtwebengine indeed.. So unless you can/want to run freecad headless.. You'll need it sadly
Another option would be to use freecad flatpak maybe (If you can tolerate it)
I have no idea about the situation of the qtwebengine binary. It's a rather complex ebuild.. That said, it sure would be great to have it as an option.

[tckosvic]

Freecad is a gui mechanical drafting program. It would not be functional without the gui. Guess, I've got to bear it.

Will look at flatpack but I'm not a big fan of those.

tom kosvic

[Ionen]

[tckosvic]

I did just try to start freecad 0.21 and it is broken. Was running at one point.

thanks for your coments.

[tckosvic]

I removed freecad and qtwebengine using demerge. Did a depclean. ecleaned distfiles.

Then, for a whim, I re-emerged freecad. It took 5 hours to install but it completed. I gave it 7 cpus. Freecad 21.2 starts fine and looks to be running. Haven't tested much but seems to be functional.

FYI, tom kosvic

[Ionen]

[hunky]

I'm quite happy with the appimage of Freecad.. works just fine for me. Your mileage may vary.