(Nuno Silva) wrote: > On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > [...] >> It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option. >> Maybe I should consider -bin instead. > If you do happen to have a more powerful machine running Gentoo on a > compatible architecture[1], you could also try Gentoo binary packages > (that is, not -bin, but binary packages made from www-client/firefox and > mail-client/thunderbird on that machine, either automatically with > FEATURES=buildpkg, or manually using quickpkg or emerge --buildpkg). > > [1] I guess it should also be possible to cross-compile, but that will > require additional steps, with which I am not acquainted. > > Do you know Seamonkey? If you like it and it works for everything you > use Firefox and Thunderbird with, another idea to consider would be > replacing Firefox and Thunderbird with Seamonkey Navigator and Seamonkey > Mail&News. That way, it would be "just" one massive build instead of > two. >
I looked at the build times of both Firefox and Seamonkey, they both average out to about the same. For me here, about 1.5 hours. Of course, it varies a bit but that's a rough average. While genlop -t shows compile times, it doesn't average them out. It's just rough in my head quick math. ;-) I agree that Seamonkey may be a good option for Daniel. I use Seamonkey for my email and some web browsing. While the new Firefox has some advantages in some areas, Seamonkey does work well. I have both installed here. Dale :-) :-) P. S. For those who keep up with my slow upgrades. I just ordered a FX-8350 CPU and 32GBs of ram. The new Firefox with Content Process set to 4 would use all my memory and cause my system to crash, reboot actually. I had to go back to one. With the new 32GBs of ram, I hope to be able to set it to 2, 3 or maybe 4. For what I do, I think 2 would be enough. They should be here in a few days. Sort of dread putting the CPU in. Always concerned something could go sideways. :/ Old parts will go on a older mobo I have. It may turn into a server for all those hard drives I need to have. lol
