Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Geoffrey Derber <gderber AT sourcemage.org>]

Hamish Greig wrote:

> real    511m46.260s
>
> athlon-tbird 1200 256MB RAM
>
> this is the time for my cast of openoffice, using a custom build file that
> allows multiple jobs in some modules and use of distcc/ccache for those
> modules too.
> I have just put it into test, in a subdir of the standard spell. Just manually
> move the BUILD file into the openoffice dir and it will be used.
> It also updates the version of freetype(to 2.1.5), openssl(to 0.9.7c), and
> Python (to 2.3.2) that comes with openoffice (only if sources for them are
> found in /var/spool/sorcery). I tried some other updates but API changes and
> dmake/makefile issues stopeed them working. (I would still like to update the
> mozilla, Sablot sources and get it to correctly use the system version of
> STLport, time and luck permitting :)

Another thing that might be able to speed thing up a bit, if you've 
gotten it to work w/ the latest freetype, openssl, and python, if the 
person has them already installed, would it be possible to to use what's 
already installed rather than compiling those again?

I'll look into STLport.  You gave me an idea on something to check out.

Geoff