On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:01 pm, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 18:38 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > > I noticed that the openoffice 2.0.2-2 from archlinux is just a repackaged > > Sun's official openoffice.org release which seems to be a good idea as it > > is in fact good in performance. > > > > But I would like to try to build my own openoffice.org from cvs or svn ( > > or whatever versioning sysem openoffice.org uses ). Anybody might have a > > PKGBUILD for that? > > I have been busy on linuxtag with this. In the end, I got many java > errors, because I don't want to build with Sun Java but with GNU java. > GCC 4.0 isn't quite ready to build a 100% working openoffice, gcc 4.1's > java compiler will have all the required bugfixes and features. > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
So, even if it does compile with Sun jdk, we won't ship our own Openoffice2 until it compiles with a opensource compiler ( gjc ), correct? If so, then I agree that opensource software should be compiled with a opensource compiler.
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