From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 08:52:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE1D16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:52:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88CCC43D54 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:52:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id j068qRh25449 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:52:27 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:52:27 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050104205450.GB13991@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: References: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <41DACF99.50601@taborandtashell.net> <20050104205450.GB13991@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:52:31 -0000 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