Extra extra long compile...

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joeri · Post by **joeri** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:14 am

I am currently compiling KDE for gentoo

Dumb as I am I don't think stuff trough and I just gave in following command on my fresh reinstalled gentoo

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emerge kde

Probably not a good idea, it has been compiling now for the last 14 hours and its still going on...
I can't imagine this always takes that long?

I have a Pentium 3 866mhz with about 245MB ram which should be enough for it!
But should I have emerged some different command? Am I installing too much?

PovMan · Post by **PovMan** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:40 am

kde is enormous. nuf said.

However - what you could have done is

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emerge -pvt kde

to get a list of kde packages and what USE flags they use, then turn some use flags on or off to maybe not compile some things you dont need.

I compiled it on a duron 900 once, it took forever. hang in there

or you could go with something smaller like xfce4

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:49 am

tnx for the reply

but 14 hours is nothing abnormal or to worry about?

if not I'll let it continue untill it gets done someday ^^

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:02 pm

its already been busy for 21 hours now...

is there any way to see where it currently is and how long it might continue to take?

JTHM · Post by **JTHM** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:36 pm

If you switch over to another virtual cosole (Ctrl+Alt+F[2-6]) and run the pretend command that PovMan mentioned:

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emerge kde -vp

It will show you all the dependencies that haven't finished emerging yet (shift-PgUp/PgDown to scroll). It's nothing all that detailed, but at least it'll give you some idea of where you stand. Unless they've replaced the default KDE install with the split e-builds, there will probably be 20(?)-ish packages that start with kde-base. These are all pretty huge, probably taking a few hours to install each.

I remember I did the very same thing when installing Gentoo on my 850Mhz test laptop for the first time. Let the whole thing just run over the weekend. Took forever, but eventually it finished. Just hang in there. I've never had any problems where portage launched into an infinite loop instead of kicking out an error message and stopping.