Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:28:33 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011206112833.A9824@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20011206090544.A45277@hub.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:05:45AM -0800 References: <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> <3C02BB76.8030209@umc.com.ua> <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20011206090544.A45277@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:05:45AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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!! > I wouldn't say naive, just under-informed (like me) > 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]. > Then OpenOffice is guilty of both? > The amount of Linux'isms in the build for i386 hosts is large, along with > assumptions all over the place. > Is there anything the under-informed can do to help? Or is this the exclusive domain of those rare linux/BSD gods we ports users are so dependent on? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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