Re: how slow is macports?
Tom Harrington
<150a9851-b52d-4f44...@u25g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Alex Miller <alex.et...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How slow is "macports"? I need to install libgtk-x11, starting from
> scratch, and I'm guessing I will need to compile it, plus X11, glib,
> gcc, etc. How long does this usually take?
You mean, just to download and install? It's hard to say, because ports
often have more dependencies than you'd expect, especially since the
port you want may depend on one thing, which in turn depends on others,
etc. The time also depends heavily on just how fast your Mac is and how
busy it is with other things while it's installing.
Try going to http://www.macports.org/ports.php and looking up the port
you want. If you're looking for gtk2, the direct dependencies are:
cairo glib2 pango atk fontconfig freetype gettext jasper jpeg libiconv
libpng pkgconfig shared-mime-info tiff xorg-libXcomposite
xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-libXfixes xorg-libXi
xorg-libXinerama xorg-libXrandr zlib
I haven't looked to see what dependencies those packages might have.
--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
P. Sture
Tom Harrington <t...@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:
> In article
> <150a9851-b52d-4f44...@u25g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
> Alex Miller <alex.et...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How slow is "macports"? I need to install libgtk-x11, starting from
> > scratch, and I'm guessing I will need to compile it, plus X11, glib,
> > gcc, etc. How long does this usually take?
>
> You mean, just to download and install? It's hard to say, because ports
> often have more dependencies than you'd expect, especially since the
> port you want may depend on one thing, which in turn depends on others,
> etc. The time also depends heavily on just how fast your Mac is and how
> busy it is with other things while it's installing.
I've used MacPorts to install ImageMagick a couple of times on my 1.5
GHz PPC PowerBook. The first time took approximately 2.5 hours. The next
time I closed down everything I didn't need and switched off Time
Machine during the installation. This brought it down to 1.5 hours.
I really recommend switching Time Machine off during a MacPort session,
as it tries to back up all the temporary files.
> Try going to http://www.macports.org/ports.php and looking up the port
> you want. If you're looking for gtk2, the direct dependencies are:
>
> cairo glib2 pango atk fontconfig freetype gettext jasper jpeg libiconv
> libpng pkgconfig shared-mime-info tiff xorg-libXcomposite
> xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-libXfixes xorg-libXi
> xorg-libXinerama xorg-libXrandr zlib
>
> I haven't looked to see what dependencies those packages might have.
I'm currently using MacPorts to get GNUcash on the same machine, This
has been chugging away for about 6 hours now, and I'm off to bed :-). I
invoked it with the 'time' command, so will know exactly how long it
took in the morning.
--
Paul Sture
Tom Harrington
"P. Sture" <paul....@sture.ch> wrote:
> I'm currently using MacPorts to get GNUcash on the same machine, This
> has been chugging away for about 6 hours now, and I'm off to bed :-). I
> invoked it with the 'time' command, so will know exactly how long it
> took in the morning.
I use GNUCash too. After MacPorts repeatedly failed to build it on Snow
Leopard, I found that there's a pre-built version available at
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/> that you can just
download and drop into your Applications folder.
If you find in the morning that MacPorts still can't build GNUCash, I
highly recommend just getting the pre-built version, it'll save a lot of
time and trouble.
P. Sture
Tom Harrington <t...@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:
> In article <paul.nospam-CF17...@pbook.sture.ch>,
> "P. Sture" <paul....@sture.ch> wrote:
>
> > I'm currently using MacPorts to get GNUcash on the same machine, This
> > has been chugging away for about 6 hours now, and I'm off to bed :-). I
> > invoked it with the 'time' command, so will know exactly how long it
> > took in the morning.
>
> I use GNUCash too. After MacPorts repeatedly failed to build it on Snow
> Leopard, I found that there's a pre-built version available at
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/> that you can just
> download and drop into your Applications folder.
>
> If you find in the morning that MacPorts still can't build GNUCash, I
> highly recommend just getting the pre-built version, it'll save a lot of
> time and trouble.
Thanks Tom.
It did build OK on Leopard, and took 10 hours 25 minutes.
The org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist had the Disabled key set to true.
Easily diagnosed and fixed though.
The documentation and help files are a separate package (gnucash-docs),
which is installing now.
Unfortunately the only prebuilt package for PPC I see at the above link
is 2.2.9 (compared with the current version of 2.3.7), so provided I
don't run into any roadblocks I'll stick with what I have.
--
Paul Sture
Tom Harrington
"P. Sture" <paul....@sture.ch> wrote:
Oh, PowerPC. I'm not surprised it built there, since the PowerPC code
is more mature. It's the Snow Leopard updates that seemed to be giving
me trouble.