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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:28:23 -0500
From:      "Niy" <Niy@extacy.homeip.net>
To:        "'RW'" <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
Message-ID:  <20050104142824.197DD43D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200501041336.51258.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of RW
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:37 AM
To: Stijn Hoop; Dave Horsfall; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:58, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:46:48PM +1100, 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?
>
> You really do not want to compile OpenOffice if you're not willing to 
> jump through hoops. It is the biggest beast in the ports tree afaik.
>
> That said, there is a WITHOUT_JAVA knob for it. Try that and see if 
> you need to jump through this particular hoop again.

Try it, but I suspect it wont help. jdk is optional for running OO, but I
think building it requires a java-based build tool. 
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I was able to build Open Office just fine without java.

Can't recall for the live of me how I did it, but I did, so it's doable. ;)

- Tim

(Just as a side note, if you try to type OOO with the trailing 'O' lowercase
in Outlook, it will change the middle 'O' to lower case as well. Just..
Weird.)



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