Hi Lucas, On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 01:52:49PM -0600, Lucas Burson wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot build AOO from source. I use Ubuntu 64bit. I have never been > able to build correctly; I switched from jdk7 to jdk6 and that didn't > change anything.
The error seems to tell your system is on Java 7, see bellow. > I used these instructions, [1], to get things started but I use a > different svn url. (off topic: I tried svn-git but it stops responding > after a while). > > These are the commands that I run to get the build going: > svn co https://svn-master.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk ~/aoo/trunk > cd ~/aoo/trunk/main/ > autoconf > ~/aoo/trunk/main/configure > --with-dmake-url=http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 > --with-epm-url=http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/epm/3.7/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz > --disable-odk --disable-binfilter > ~/aoo/trunk/main/bootstrap > source ~/aoo/trunk/main/LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh > cd ~/aoo/trunk/main/instsetoo_native/ > build --all -P4 -- -P4 > > > It fails. I get a bunch of compiler errors about abstract methods not > being overridden: > " > [javac] > /home/ljdelight/aoo/trunk/main/hsqldb/unxlngx6.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcStatement.java:127: > error: jdbcStatement is not abstract and does not override abstract > method isCloseOnCompletion() in Statement > [javac] public class jdbcStatement implements Statement { > [javac] ^ This method was added on Java 7, see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/sql/Statement.html#isCloseOnCompletion%28%29 Either use alternatives to switch to Java 6, or better install Java 6 from your distros repo, leaving your system's default, and pointing the build system to the right JDK 6, configuring with --with-jdk-home for example: --with-jdk-home=/opt/jdk1.6 here JDK 6 is in /opt/jdk1.6 Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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