> On Dec 2, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 30/11/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: >> I think for 4.2.x and later, we have deprecated CentOS5 as a supported >> build system... I ran into a LOT of issues. > > Such as, for example?
for starters: o zip 3.0. o GIO > I think that the guide we have at > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#CentOS_5 > used to be the most solid procedure to build OpenOffice, while it is > well-known that building on Windows is complex and building on Mac is even > more complex and resulted in broken builds several times. > > The reason I'm asking is not because CentOS 5 is particularly relevant (I > think we have agreement that we'll switch to CentOS 6 for 4.2.x and that the > next, if any, 4.1.x releases will cover major regressions only), but because > I think that an updated version (to CentOS 6) of that guide should be the > reference for our 4.2.x builds. So if there are issues that can be ironed > out, better to do it as soon as possible. Isn't that exactly what I'm doing??? Or do you have some other point to make?
