openoffice-src module needs some testers

[Auke Kok]

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 04:35, Chuck Mead wrote:
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> Nick Hudson wrote:
> | Well I know some of you maynot like this but I added a openoffice-src
> | module to crater just now.  It will take the latest snapshot of 1.1RC3
> | apply some ximian patches and build for about ~20 hours maybe longer
> | depending on the box speed and ram.  If someone has some spare CPU time
> | please test the module.
> |
> | Now the module is a bit weird as the OO.o env needs well they say it
> | needs a clean build env.  So it d/l and compiles gcc, binutils, and
> | j2sdk but it doesnt install them.  Well it doesnt compile j2sdk either,
> | but you get my point.  At the end you should have a nice OO.o install,
> | that will have gnome-vfs support along with AA fonts and nice new bitmap
> | images.  For those who havent seen the Ximian version of openoffice,
> | this is it.  Please let me have some feedback.  Truthfully I dont know
> | if it even needs to be added to moonbase.  Maybe I can take this and
> | make a binary out of it and we can use it as the openoffice-bin module
> | instead of the awful looking one put out by the OO.o team.  I dont know
> | yet thats why its in crater/x11-apps.
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> Insanity!
> 
> I do not have anything even capable of building this!

I'll have to have it build on my network share since my local laptop
discs only have 1G of free space, but I'll let it run over the weekend
=^D since I'm out anyway.

sofar


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Auke Kok <sofar at lunar-linux.org>