Re: [MLUG] OpenOffice won't run in Gentoo after update

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Monday 11 September 2006 22:14, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> Phillip Kelchen wrote:

>
> Here are my not very useful statements.
>
> I compile OO quite often on FreeBSD.  It is very troublesome and only
> compiles sometimes.  It is the sort of program that will show up
> compiler bugs.

I did compile OpenOffice once on that machine. It took 12 hours. Trying to use 
distcc to have my desktop help does not work- it dies 2 hours into the 
compile. When it was bumped to the next version (2.0.2) I just downloaded the 
binary, which took 3 minutes.

> I would consider all those flags extreme except perhaps the -pipe.  I
> think that if you ditch the rest (including the -O2) that it will not go
> noticably slower.

I'll try that. The default flags are -02 -pipe and set -$PROCARCH. I have my 
desktop using AMD's suggested "for best performance with 64-bit Linux/GCC" 
flags 
of -march=k8 -msse3 -ffast-math -O3 -pipe -funroll-all-loops -funit-at-a-time 
-fpeel-loops -ftracer -funswitch-loops -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer. 

> And if there is any way you could compile it using gcc-3.4.6 I bet that
> would help a lot too.  FreeBSD-stable is still using gcc-3.4.6.

That's what I was running. However, even in the old 2006.0 profile, GCC 4.1.1 
was marked stable and you have to undertake great pains to not be made to use 
it sooner or later. So I did my desktop first on AMD64 and the upgrade went 
perfectly. So I did the laptop and I have this problem. Well, I could revert, 
but that entails a lot of work and the problem will show its head later.

> Also, I having compiled it a few times, I know it takes several hours.
> So I guess that these are not things you can try out quickly.  Is there
> any way you can simply borrow someone elses binary (does Gentoo support
> RPM or some other kind of packaging)?

That's what I did. I emerged openoffice-bin which is the tarball binary 
installer from OpenOffice.org. 

> Also, there is an OO-2.0.4rc1 out.  Maybe, just maybe, that would have
> some kinds of fixes.

I'll see if it is masked in Portage testing. I'll get back to you tomorrow, 
and thanks for your input.

Phillip


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