Could you make a guess at how far your effort would help someone trying to compile and package libreoffice for Solaris 11.2?
Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 8 jun 2015 22:50 skrev "Peter Tribble" <peter.trib...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Volker A. Brandt <v...@bb-c.de> wrote: > > > > as a pointer for people who want to get > > > LibreOffice running on other distros such as OI, I've written up my > > > notes here: > > > > > > > > > http://ptribble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/building-libreoffice-on-tribblix.html > > > > Thank you Peter! This will be very useful. > > > > You write that LibreOffice is the "primary candidate" for an office > > suite for Tribblix. Why did you select LibreOffice over OpenOffice? > > > > It's got greater mindshare, more developers, more users, shipped by more > distros. Not to mention better and wider document format support. > > > > Some of the stated goals of the LibreOffice project when they forked > > were to convert all comments from German to English, and to rip out > > all Solaris-specific things. I would have guessed that OpenOffice > > would be easier to build than LibreOffice. > > > > All the modernization and refactoring in LibreOffice (and the replacement > of the old build system) have made it much easier to build - the old > build system was far more rigid and fragile. > > > > Anyway, more choice is always good. > > > > Having a functional office suite at all has to be good! > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
