[Slackbuilds-users] Cant seem to build webkitgtk or webkitgtk3 on Slackware64-14.1

Aaditya Bagga aaditya_gnulinux at zoho.com
Fri Nov 15 17:08:51 UTC 2013


Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi Aaditya,
>
> Aaditya Bagga wrote, On 15/11/13 16:52:
>> Aaditya Bagga wrote:
>>> Matteo Bernardini wrote:
>>>> as those looks to me like just warnings, have you tried to let it
>>>> finish and see if all goes fine?
>>
>>> Followed your suggestion, and it seems to be building for *more than
>>> an hour *now! How long do you reckon it takes to build webkitgtk? All
>>> packages I built previously took 1-2 minutes. And I have a reasonably
>>> fast CPU, i5 3210m 2.5Ghz
>>
>> After an hour and about a quarter-hour, it finally seems to have built!
>
> For advice, some things (even what seems a smaller source code) can 
> sometimes take longer.
>
> e.g. On my notebook (atom single core with HT @ 1.66), I can build a 
> custom kernel in 42 minutes.  My server amd64 can build a custom 
> kernel in 10 minutes.
>
> Yesterday I built Inkspot on my notebook - 4 hours nearly ;)
>
> So until you build, you just do not know - just don't stop it.
>
> Nick
Thx for the info Nick :)

Do you have some more tips for me..like if I can clear out my /tmp of 
all the stuff that gets created while building packages, and if I can 
change the default directory where the packages are built and where they 
are moved to after being built.

Thx ;)



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