Hi Fridrich, 
Am Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:25:16 +0200, schrieb Fridrich Strba:
> Warning: This post is containing a rant. If you have weak nerves, 
> please, do not read it.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The porting project needs a porter to port OpenOffice.org on Mac 
> OSX! You may say, that there is a porting team. I will firmly 
> disagree. There is a group of Mac OSX "builders", but no porter. 
> The aim of a port is IMHO not so much in providing binary 
> packages for a given platform as in making it possible to build 
> these binary packages _out-of-the-box_. This is not possible for 
> the while. There is a serie of patches that allow to build 
> scatered all around the place, but OOo is not buildable on Mac 
> OSX using only build instructions and a fresh cvs checkout.

May I insist here. At least for me using Mac OS X 10.3.9, XCode 1.5 
plus Nov.04 gcc 3.3 Update, gcc 3.3 it is possible. The only 
stopper that occured with clean sources of m125 was the one out of 
IZ51940 and this will be fixed once cws gslpatches4 is checked into 
main source code tree.

I can take a look at gsplpatches cws and if it is obvious that i 
won't check in soon I may try my best and create a new macosx cws 
for this patch. The problem is that I started a new job and that I 
currently have not that much time for OOo and it is even hard for 
me these days to build it and even harder to find some spare time 
in which I can learn to code. Sadly we only learned Turbo Pascal in 
school and a lot of theory about planing process for software etc 
but no real coding practice and before OOo and Mac OS X and 
OpenSource there was no need for me to learn coding.  

The other stoppers are packing problems. If you let epm pack OOo 
without any patches that we currently use those problems won't 
occure but in the end you will have 17 single pkg Packages and that 
is nothing a Mac User likes to install. They want Drag'n'Drop or 
one mtpkg and to get this far we need those patches who cause the 
problem. 

The only really bug in functionallity is the WebWizard AWT bug but 
here we are investigating.

Regards, 
Eric Hoch

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