openoffice-src module needs some testers

[Nick Hudson]

Well  let me know but as of right now, looks like it doesnt like our
version of bison and its generating errors.  I am going to get on their
mailing list to find out why I am getting the errors because they are
pretty stupid.

Nick


On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 05:33, Auke Kok wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 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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