[ale] [OT] Home PBX?

[mike at trausch.us]

On 08/01/2012 12:00 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi, Derek,
>>
>> I had to laugh at this response.  Many of you know that Derek has been 
>> involved in the gnucash project for a long time.  For some reason that's 
>> been lost to me in my advanced years, I had to compile gnucash from 
>> source once.   It is perhaps the most complex compile I've ever done 
>> with dozens of dependencies and requirements.
> 
> Have you ever tried building Firefox or OpenOffice?  GnuCash PALES in
> comparrison.  But you're right, GnuCash historically was hard to build.
> It's much easier nowadays.

Indeed.  Thankfully, I have Portage to do that for me!

>> Compiling FreeSwitch is a breeze.  The instructions on the web site are 
>> mostly complete and easy to follow.  It takes about an hour on a 
>> reasonable system.
> 
> The issue isn't the challenge in building the code.  I'm sure it's
> straightforward (although an hour to build is still too much time,
> IMHO).  The issue is maintaining the system and upgrading.  That's why I

Anything that takes longer than an "make allmodconfig && make -j10" on
the Linux kernel (on my system) is something I won't wait around for.  I
didn't record how much time GC took to build on my system the last time,
but running a rebuild of it just now:

	Download:	6s
	Extract:	2s
	Configure:	30s
	Build:		1m18s

Not bad at all.  :-)

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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