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.
>
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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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