I'd say there should be a note in BLFS Book where it lists epm as an optional dependency which would warn the users of the obvious pitfall !
Kevin
On 11/10/06,
Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin Williams wrote:
> I tried searching thru' the forums/mailing lists of openoffice.org, I
> don't see any thread that is related to compiling openoffice. All the
> threads I see on openoffice.org are related to installing and setting
> up binary versions !
>
> Fortunately enough, I stumbled upon a page on openoffice.org that
> briefly summarizes the build process. From there I learned that, the
> build process outputs all binaries, libs, includes etc. to the
> directory solver. When I look into the directory
> solver/680/unxlngi6.pro, I do see several directories - bin, lib, inc,
> rdb, res etc. Thses in turn hold the libs and binaries etc. Now, I
> know where the finished product lies. What I'm mused over is - do I
> copy these directories to /opt/OpenOffice2 and presume this is the
> right way to do. ?
>
> The page in question - http://tools.openoffice.org/background.html -
> explains that if one changes to the directory instsetoo_native and
> runs 'build --all', the build script will build all the modules and
> delivers them. I couldn't figure out where it delivers !!? I were
> wondering if I run this 'build -all' would it result in rebuilding the
> entire tree or would it behave like a standard make, I mean traverse
> thru' directoried and find that all the targets have been made and
> only deliver the package to wherever it delivers ? I wouldn't want to
> rebuild the entire tree again after having spent three days int just
> this one !!
>
> Can someone do me a favour by mailing me a file that contains a list
> of the files (with qualified paths) that will be installed to the
> destination. A simple 'find /opt/openoffice' should do it.
>
> Also, I would appreciate if someone could confirm if all the programs
> that are installed namingly, scalc, sdraw, simpress, smath, soffice
> and swriter actually are shell scripts and not elf binaries !
> (spadmin - Not found. But I do see an elf binary named spadmin.bin)
>
> Thanks for any help that would come along.
>
> Kevin
I don't understand the problem. Did the BLFS instructions not work for you?
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