Dear OOo developers, I am doing some investigation on the concurrency bug detection, and I am studying some "old concurrency bugs". And I feel OpenOffice has very detailed bug report and thus make a very good candidate for the study. For example, I am looking at this bug :
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44627 It is said that the version is 680m79 and Target milestone:OOo 2.0.2. However, I am not sure how to get the source code of this or how to check it out from CVS or SVN. And it would be great if there is some document about how to build this "very old" OOo. I did manage to download some source code tarball from some unofficial OOo website. One of the tarballs is labeled as OOo_2.0.0_src.tar.gz and the other tarball that is labeled as OOo_2.0.1_src.tar.gz. I am not sure if I have downloaded the right one for the bug I need to study in the first place. And When I was trying to build the whole thing according to http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.html, I came across various issues with the JDK version and ANT version. After I googled around, I am using JDK 1.4.2 and ANT 1.6.2. There are still some other issues that I find pretty hard to resolve even after googling. So I am trying to ask this: (1) is there a way that I can check out the legacy code, furthermore, from the bug report how can I tell which tag or branch of the source code I should download/checkout (2) is there any document regarding what the system requirement for a particular build, such like the java version, c/c++ version etc (3) once I have retrieved the source code, is it true that I can always just follow http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_linux.html to build the software ? Thank you very much again ! Wei
