Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: RexFelis <catlord17@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building OO from ports. Message-ID: <20031014110653.81013.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031010201819.GD49778@q.closedsrc.org>
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--- Linh Pham <question+advocacy@closedsrc.org> wrote: > On 2003-10-10 13:03 -0700, RexFelis > <catlord17@yahoo.com> wrote: > > # I built OO from ports on a dial up > connection. > # Twice. What takes a long time is downloading > # everything. The compiling takes only a few > hours > # on my computer (1.533 GHz, 512 megs ram). > > Downloading the main source tarball and the > Mozilla tarball that it uses > does take quite a while. > > Compile times depend mostly on the speed of the > processor, amount of > memory and the speed of the hard drive. It took > my P3-800 laptop with a > 4200RPM hard drive over 12 hours to compile. My > P3-500 with 256MB of RAM > and a 7200RPM hard drive took over 20 hours to > compile. > > Then on my dual Xeon 2.4 under 5.1-RELEASE (SMP > enabled) took under 4 > hours to complete the build and install. > > For me, I definitely notice a nice boost in the > program's response when > building it from ports compared to using the > latest binary package. I have been doing a lot of writing lately, and I have the equivalent of a novelette built so far (16,700 words). It's given me the opportunity to test out OO in a variety of ways. It loads faster from ports than it does under Linux Mandrake from pre-packaged install, that's for sure. And from the experience I had last time I tried to build OO, it works a whole hell of a lot better now. I dare say it works the way it was intended to, meaning everything compiled correctly. Last time I was missing things (like the spellchecking dictionary... thesaurus... and a few other things). I must say, the port maintainers do a fantastic job, and I send them my thanks and kudos. It has definitely been worth the effort to build OO. And it gives me such a sense of delight that we have such a wonderful thing as this in ports! I have to say, TextMaker's got me seriously intrigued, though. Shannon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
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