Re: Missing '-version' breaks build of OpenOffice..

2001-09-08 Thread Alex Buell
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Kevin Ryan / KNB wrote: > Baloney. "javac -version" doesn't work anywhere, because the > "-version" is an option to "java", not to "javac". Yeah, I only realised this was the case 10 minutes ago. Anyway, looks like the problem is with OpenOffice's configure script. For some

Re: Missing '-version' breaks build of OpenOffice..

2001-09-08 Thread ed phillips
This is the kind of thing that really slows down Java development! And some try to say that open source developers have a bias against Java! Nonsense. I understand that we are all constrained by larger forces here and that Sun doesn't have it in them to go all the way (i.e. GPL). If those of you

Missing '-version' breaks build of OpenOffice..

2001-09-08 Thread Alex Buell
Hi guys Just discovered to my horror that the configure script in OpenOffice relies on passing '-version' to javac to check that it is the right software to use with it. This problem seen on both intel and sparc platforms (1.3.1 and 1.3.0 respectively). Any plans to sort this out? Doing 'javac -