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kansas city shuffle

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[SOLVED] AUR build times

I've just started attempting to build my first AUR package the 'palemoon' browser.

I downloaded the tarball file: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/palemoon/

Extracted the file and ran makepkg -sci, and it's compiling but it's been going on for awhile now about an hour and still going. (haven't been prompted to installed anything yet from pacman)

Is build time common with AUR package building?

Last edited by kansas city shuffle (2015-07-29 23:33:57)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR build times

Not with all AUR packages, but unsurprising with something like a browser. Also, dependant upon your hardware and, to a much lesser extent, the flags you use in your makepkg.conf.

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR build times

Build time on AUR package can be anywhere from a couple of seconds to many hours. In this case, you're building Firefox, which is a large, complex project. It's going to take some time a resources.

kansas city shuffle

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR build times

Thanks guys for the informative replies.

pypi

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR build times

LFS has a concept of a "SBU", ie Standard Build Units. They should give you a ballpark indication of how long something takes to build.

See the BLFS for an approximate SBU for other packages.
For firefox, for instance, see the firefox entry.
According to the chapter on building the linux kernel, linux can take anywhere between 3 and 49 SBU's, normally around 6. Compare that to Firefox's 60 SBU's...