[olug] Compiling for your PC

[Eric Penne]

>From what I've found:

apt-get build-dep openoffice.org
apt-get source --build openoffice.org

the build-dep line installs all the dependencies for the openoffice.org
compile.  Then source --build downloads the source and builds it.

I assume you have to do a dpkg -i whatever.deb after that but it crapped
on me so I didn't try.

I don't know where in the world I need to set that it is for i486 instead.

Eric


> Eric Penne wrote:
>  > I've been using APT now and I love it.  Recently a thread on a Debian
> email list was discussing getting rid of i386 and compiling for i486
> instead.  Some computation intensive tasks in OpenSSL showed a
>  > minimum 4% improvement in speed with one having a 100+% improvement.
> Obviously there will be performance improvements to most packages but
> is it worth the comile time?
>
> Good question.  Depends on if you're willing to wait for the compile to
> finish.
>
>  > Is it possible to use APT to download the source, compile, then
> install all in one step?  I know people like Gentoo but I don't want
> to jump head first into fast flowing currents. :)  I just want to dip
> my toes in.
>
> Unfortunately not right off hand.  APT is not for people who like to
> compile stuff :)
>
>  > In other news, upgrading from 128MB to 256MB on a Celeron 800MHz cut
> the load time of OpenOffice 1.0.3 from 2 minutes to 30 seconds.  I'm
> wondering if compiling from source would cut that time down even
> more.
>
> Woohoo!  I *new* having a 1GB workstation had benefits! :)
>
> --
>
> Phil Brutsche
> phil at brutsche.us
>
>
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