From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 6 9: 5:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 0B80A37B417; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:05:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:05:45 -0800 From: David O'Brien To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011206090544.A45277@hub.freebsd.org> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> <3C02BB76.8030209@umc.com.ua> <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:22:00PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:22:00PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > I can't imagine that given the Solaris and Linux head start that > there is a lot of work to do. BOY are you nieve!! Have you looked at the OpenOffice build system (or any other huge software system)?? If you have you should know how hard bringing a huge piece of software up on a new platform can be [when the original developers either (1) over engineered the building, or (2) gave no forethought to the build system]. The amount of Linux'isms in the build for i386 hosts is large, along with assumptions all over the place. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message