Hi, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:01:21PM -0800, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > "Choice" allowed me to continue updating the office suite! > > I was using OpenOffice 3.3.0 when Apache took over. When Apache > released 3.4, I discovered Apache made some, IMHO bad, decisions > that broke installation on my older Slackware Linux computer. Those > decisions made it very painful for me to upgrade to their 3.4 > version. The "deal breaker" was the decision to switch glibc > versions. Even though the release notes stated that OO 3.4 would > work on glibc 2.5 or greater, that was incorrect and in actuality, > it required glibc 2.11.
This wasn't a decision, it was a bug, see https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119385 Early testing by the user community would have avoided this bug. There is no need to be a developer to contribute to an open source project like OpenOffice. > My computer is running glibc 2.7. I then > tried building from source and discovered another Apache decision > tossed the tried-and-true GNU autotools build environment in favor > of something called dmake The build environment based in dmake comes from Sun Microsystem times (or may be even before that). > (sounds like yet another PHD project > looking for a home). I tried dmake, but I still had problems > building the source. Try the unofficial tar ball from http://people.apache.org/~arielch/packages/r1372282-glibc-2.5/#full-archived-sets you don't even need to install it. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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