I am seeing some benefit from installing the non-binary distribution of OpenOffice, and so was looking at what it would take to do so. In the ebuild for OO 3.1, I think there may be a typo. One section states that 256MB RAM is required, while the memory check looks at whether there is 512MB. This distinction is important to me since I have 384MB of RAM on my system. Applicable section of ebuild: =============== pkg_setup() { ewarn ewarn " It is important to note that OpenOffice.org is a very fragile " ewarn " build when it comes to CFLAGS. A number of flags have already " ewarn " been filtered out. If you experience difficulty merging this " ewarn " package and use agressive CFLAGS, lower the CFLAGS and try to " ewarn " merge again. Also note that building OOo takes a lot of time and " ewarn " hardware ressources: 4-6 GB free diskspace and 256 MB RAM are " ewarn " the minimum requirements. If you have less, use openoffice-bin " ewarn " instead. " ewarn ewarn " Also if you experience a build break, please make sure to retry " ewarn " with MAKEOPTS="-j1" before filing a bug. " ewarn # Check if we have enough RAM and free diskspace to build this beast CHECKREQS_MEMORY="512" ==================== (By the way, I noticed that the metadata.xml file does not seem to include a <maintainer> section.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at ebuild file. 2. 3. Actual Results: Unable to install OO if it actually does require 512MB
to be on the safe side you really should have 512 MByte, the 256-Mbyte info is outdated and I've removed it now. you might try but... Thanks for reporting.
