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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:05:45 -0800
From:      David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011206090544.A45277@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:22:00PM -0700
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:22:00PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> 
> I can't imagine that given the Solaris and Linux head start that
> there is a lot of work to do.

BOY are you nieve!!
Have you looked at the OpenOffice build system (or any other huge
software system)??  If you have you should know how hard bringing a huge
piece of software up on a new platform can be [when the original
developers either (1) over engineered the building, or (2) gave no
forethought to the build system].

The amount of Linux'isms in the build for i386 hosts is large, along with
assumptions all over the place.
 
-- 
-- David    (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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