Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:52:27 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0501061946110.21084@dave.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <20050104205450.GB13991@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <41DACF99.50601@taborandtashell.net> <20050104205450.GB13991@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice > > (even though this is not listed as a dependency). > > It is, actually. You only need linprocfs in order to build jdk14, > because bootstrapping a java compiler requires a java compiler > (i.e. we use a linux binary jdk). If you already had jdk14 installed > before you tried to build OO, you wouldn't need to compile another > jdk. Ah, that explains it! Thanks. Just like GCC in a way, except GCC doesn't need GCC (last time I built it from scratch) but you *do* have to compile it with itself again. I may as well have another go in that case, although OOo works without it. -- Dave
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