On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:17:13AM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Dave Horsfall wrote: > >On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > > > >>direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html > > > > > >And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops > >do we have to jump through? > > I did it, and it wasn't hard, just confusing. It is confusing because > you need to know that: > > 1. You need the linprocfs mounted to make java/linux-sun-jdk14 > 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice > (even though this is not listed as a dependency).
It is, actually. You only need linprocfs in order to build jdk14, because bootstrapping a java compiler requires a java compiler (i.e. we use a linux binary jdk). If you already had jdk14 installed before you tried to build OO, you wouldn't need to compile another jdk. Kris
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