[Fink-beginners] Re: Fink-beginners digest, Vol 1 #2246 - 4 msgs

[Kevin Horton]

On 1 Jul 2005, at 23:09, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1 July 2005 22:10:07 GMT-04:00 To: "Brian O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Fink Beginners <fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] openoffice Brian O'Keefe wrote: Well that is really weird. I searched the database and nothing. When I used the link you provided there it was. Strange, very strange. Oh well, thanks Alexander. Any idea when the package will go binary? the compiling seems to be quite and issue with disc space according to what I have seen on posts. Again, many thanks On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:44, Alexander Hansen wrote:   Sorry about the duplicate message, by the way--my mail program and the mail server were in a battle of wills and the original message wasn't tagged as replied to. Like every other package, this won't go binary until it builds reliably for most everybody and can be moved to stable.  I believe that openoffice.org should get special treatment.  The build takes, a very, very long time, and the last time I tried it needed over 37 GB of disk space (I'm not sure how much disk space it needs - my build attempt failed when the disk ran out of space).  I did download the binary from http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~asari/OpenOffice.org/, and it worked fine.  I suspect that many, many more people will be able to use the binary than would be able to compile it. I believe that openoffice.org should be released as a binary now. Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada