As I mentioned previously, I upgraded my desktop machine to Gentoo. Unfortunately, I discovered late last night that my hard drive was dying (40 GB 7200 RPM IBM drive). Fortunately, I have another 60 GB hard drive in that machine to pick up all the slack.
In the process of messing with the machine this evening to get it back up and on it's feet with the hard drive, I discovered "genlop". A great emerge log file parser that gives you all sorts of statistics on how long ebuilds took to compile and such. Very cool! For example, OpenOffice takes *forever* to compile:
Thu Dec 30 05:00:16 2004 --> app-office/openoffice-1.1.4
merge time: 6 hours, 35 minutes, and 17 seconds.
One particularly nice feature is that genlop can estimate the compile time of new versions of packages using the compile times for the versions you have installed. Great for upgrades!
Just "emerge genlop" and you'll be off and running.)
Posted by enigma at January 16, 2005 10:03 PM