On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 11:03 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > A. it makes LibreOffice easier to build, to not require Java > + I made this point, Spaetz has some examples of build failure > with different Javas / Ant (that speak of much frustration > and > wasted time), Jonathan has been bitten by junit issues, > I (personally) have had -tons- of weirdo java build issues > in the past, Lubos builds --without-java
Count me in too. I too am having a java issue at the moment, and have to build --without-java. I had had no problems building with java ever (using the sun jdk downloaded from their site) for the past x years, but for some reason recent 3.3 builds gave me some build issues with java which I couldn't figure out in reasonable time. So, I decided to build --without-java in the meantime. Yes, I could have investigated further to see what the issue was, but I'm not that well versed with java, not as much as I do with C++, so my comfort level drops when faced with java issues. As for whether or not to make --without-java a default, well, we know that --with-java enables it anyway for us experienced builders, so I don't see a problem with disabling it by default. And indeed, as Caolan said, the java situation is somewhat messy on SUSE platforms, where multiple jdk implementations are provided, gcj, openjdk, sun-jdk, and ibm-jdk. Anyhow... Kohei -- Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc <kyosh...@novell.com> _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
