[bt-devel] Bibeltime beta 4 bugs

Brook Humphrey bt-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:27:56 -0800


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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:08 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:50, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 07:34 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > FWIW Webster's has always loaded slow in Bibletime, not just in the
> > > beta. What are we doing differently than the others?
> >
> > I know it has but it was slower than normal with my beta4 build. usaully
> > it only take 30 seconds or so. I dont belive my system is to blaim. It's
> > xp1700 with 512 megs ddr333 ram. The hard drive is an ata 133 80 gig. So
> > anyway I dont think that is the issue.
>
> On my Athlon4 1.2G notebook (512MB PC100CL2 RAM, typical slow 30GB ATA100
> notebook drive -- hdparm -t gives a paltry ~20Mbps), Websters loads in
> ~15-20 seconds.  Under beta4, Red Hat 8.0, stock updated Red Hat kernel,
> stock KDE (updated).

Well still thats much slower than any of the other front ends. I wonder why it 
really loads my system. I am running kde 3.1 so that may be an issue.

>
> > On A side note I'll have and updatred spec in cvs soon I just used it to
> > build the version of bibletime I'm using now. It's much more automatic.
>
> Good.  Does the automation still involve configure, or is it in a more
> spec-centric mode?

I'm not sure I understand. I use a little awk some perl to auto grab some info 
and stuff into variables for the spec. The rest is passing variable to 
configure. I have really optimized this for mandrake. It should build on 
other systems also however.

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