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On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:09 AM, <v_2e@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> I decided to upgrade LibreOffice this week to the verstion 3.4.4. |
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> Before trying to build this package, emerge performed the pre-check |
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> of available space on my hard disk - 9GB. I did have this amount of |
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> free space on the drive, but I noticed that after about 8 hours of |
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> compiling it took only ~4 GB on my HDD. First of all, I thought that it |
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> was compiling *really* slowly and that it hadn't even made a half of |
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> the job. However, after about a half an hour it finished with success |
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> and I noticed that altogether it took about 4.5 GB on HDD. |
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> So it checked 9GB (and earlier versions of LO indeed needed almost |
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> such amount of free space), but took only as much as 4.5 GB. |
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> |
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> The question is: why? |
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I'll venture a guess that it may have approached 9GB either with some |
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short-lived files, or *would* have approached 9GB with a different USE |
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flag or other configuration combination. |
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> P.S. Today I tried to install LO v.3.4.4 on the machine with about 6 GB |
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> of free space. Emerge performed its regular pre-check and refused to |
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> build the package. I changed the |
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> CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="9G" |
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> to |
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> CHECKREQS_DISK_BUILD="5G" |
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> in "libreoffice-3.4.4.2-r1.ebuild" and everything went fine. |
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Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to the size required being dependent on |
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USE flag combinations. |
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:wq |