Hi Uri,
Please see inline comments below.
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Uri Sharf wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:16:44PM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> >
> > Can anybody attest to the difficulty of building it on linux from a
> > source package?
> >
> I've built it on Gentoo, when I still had Gentoo that is. Long and
> tedious (~8 hrs on P4/2.0 GHZ), but built smoothly. I've also tried
> building the Debian Package, with Ximian's patches before they were
> available publicaly, there were lots of issues with it, as you can see
> in the debian-ooo mailing list.
Sometimes OOo does build relatively easily, especially on Linux. You were
probably using one of the tagged versions that had been designated as a
release candidate. They are usually pretty easy to build. The development
versions in between are usually much harder to build. You have to guess
what compiler to use, what glibc, what JDK, and sometimes you have to
compile some of the projects with an older compiler. It's a mess.
> BTW Working with a "resolver" (like Jonathan suggets basically) should
> have been an option, or is an option for someone working on the
> localized subset, or is it not? I've played around with it once and it
> seemed a bit tidious and way out of my scope, but not completely out of
> the question.
Yes, the solver is a great way to work. The problem is that there isn't a
solver tree available for each tagged version. You are correct to say that
what we are proposing is in essence to publish solver trees for selected
development versions in order to jump start the developers.
BTW it was Shachar Shemesh who suggested this idea.
- yba
>
> Uri
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