Bug 128730 – revisiting the jobs restriction on app-office/openoffice-2.0.2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Avuton Olrich 2006-04-03 22:38:15 UTC]

emerging openoffice, as anyone knows, is no short compile. It gets even worse due to the default jobs restriction. It took 8 hours to compile on a computer without distcc, and <2 hours with distcc and a few boxes, after I removed the jobs restrictions. Is this jobs restiction still required or something left over from legacy openoffice builds? Or is it possibly time just to make the default to build with jobs= and put einfo to inform that it may fail. If openoffice is able to compile on the gentoo machine, I'm not sure jobs will make it fail at this point.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-04 00:35:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Or is it possibly time just to make the
> default to build with jobs= and put einfo to inform that it may fail.

Uh, sorry but this is not acceptable solution, AFAIK OO.org is still not parallel-make safe and failing because of this after several hours into compile will for sure make *way* more people angry that enabling parallel-make for the bunch of folks that use distcc.

[Comment 2 Avuton Olrich 2006-04-04 01:21:07 UTC]

I was just makeing sure, I had heard no noise weather things had gotten better. Thanks

[Comment 3 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-04-04 10:29:38 UTC]

If you want to try you can do the build with

WANT_DISTCC="true" emerge openoffice

this will build with distcc, but you are on your own, so don't complain about breakage. Not doing anything here for the reasons Jakub explained