Thinking of building OpenOffice

Falcata · 2008-04-27 20:31:04

I'm thinking of building OpenOffice through abs, with some slightly more optimized build flags. Before I do this, I want to know if my computer has enough resources and power to compile it. My CPU is a 2.8ghz Pentium4 (Northwood, I think) with Hyper-Threading enabled. I have one gigabyte of DDR2 SDRAM, and 15.8 gigabytes of free space on my /home partition. Will my computer be able to build OpenOffice without any problems?

ise · 2008-04-27 20:45:43

It will take a long time....nevertheless your RAM is too small, OpenOffice eats lots of RAM during compilation. I hope you have enough swap, but it will slowdown the compile process dramatically. You can try it, but I wouldn't do it on such hardware resources...

Daniel

Falcata · 2008-04-27 22:10:37

Thanks for the advice. I think I'll wait until I can buy some more RAM or get a newer/better computer. How much RAM would I need to build OpenOffice?

Falcata · 2008-05-09 12:10:24

Since my computer is more than likely not powerful enough to build openoffice-base, could someone do it for me? These are the flags I wanted to use:

CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -O3 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4 -O3 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2"

JGC · 2008-05-09 12:28:43

I don't see the reason to optimize a package that is busy 99,9% with waiting on user input. Yes, it could improve your startup time with half a second, but that's all. It's not worth the build time (or even the upload time for others who provide you with a package) to optimize openoffice for your CPU.

Falcata · 2008-05-09 13:03:22

Well, since the point of this was to see how much of a speed increase the optimization would give, I'll just take your word for it.

dolby · 2008-05-09 15:50:16

I would say just dont. I tried doing it once and its the most depressing task i have tried to accomplish in my life. The OO PKGBUILD is the worst i have ever seen.
Andyrtr is a hero.
Thats when i decided i wouldnt use it if the developers didt make the configure & build procedure easier.

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