compile time?

[total newbie]

how long does a program usally take to compile


im compileing Qt 3.1.somit (i hope) just wandering how long its likely to take



only have a 233mhz cpu as me linux box is an old laptop

dont matter how long really can always leave it running.



so how long do most things take to complie? (assuming im doing it right)

[mdwatts]

Take a note of the start time, compile QT and when done take a note of the end time. Subtract the first from the second and there you have it. :D

QT does/will take a very long time to compile especially on those hardware specs.

Find something else to do in the meantime.

[total newbie]

err well i guess its done when its done,

really hope i havent screwed up at all.

[bwkaz]

Qt 3.1 does take a very long time. It took two or three hours on my Athlon XP1800, so your 233MHz machine is going to take a good deal longer.

Like mdwatts said, go find something else to do. ;)

[total newbie]

better leave it on all night then, does kde 3.1 take a long time also?

[Arcane_Disciple]

I am running a 1.6 celeron with 256 meg of ram and its taking me about 4 hrs to compile kde 3.1

[total newbie]

i think i messed up qt cus when i did make install i got loads of errors about dir not found and then it just thrashed at the hdd so after an hour of thrashing aborted it

:eek:



:(


shall l leave the qt that i think i compiled there? if anyone knows what i did wrong can they tell me?
its in /usr/local/qt

or should i delete this dir?

gonna load kde from the red hat disk for now.

[mdwatts]

If you aborted the QT compiling, then you should delete whatever was created and start the compile again.

[total newbie]

i think i'll wait for the binarys to come out

i aborted the make install.

so what bit is the compileing part? i thought it was make

[bwkaz]

Yeah, make does compiling. make install was doing installation.

What did you use to configure Qt? What was the -prefix you used? When I did it (Qt 3.1), I used ./configure -prefix /usr/qt3 -system-lib{mng,png,jpeg} -qt-imgfmt-{png,mng,jpeg} -qt-gif -system-zlib -thread to configure it.

You were doing make install as root, right?

[total newbie]

nm now i found some unoffical rpms gonna try em

[total newbie]

sod it i dunno what im doing just gonna use the packages that come with redhat for now

so will use kde 3