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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:52:27 +1100 (EST)
From:      Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.61.0501061946110.21084@dave.horsfall.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050104205450.GB13991@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <41DACF99.50601@taborandtashell.net> <20050104205450.GB13991@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> > 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.

Ah, that explains it!  Thanks.  Just like GCC in a way, except GCC doesn't 
need GCC (last time I built it from scratch) but you *do* have to compile 
it with itself again.

I may as well have another go in that case, although OOo works without it.

-- Dave



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