From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 6 9:28:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F4A37B419; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:28:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (IDENT:2525@shell.voyager.net [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fB6HSf698623; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:28:41 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dpoland@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) id fB6HSXJ27526; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:28:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:28:33 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: "David O'Brien" Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011206112833.A9824@polands.org> References: <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> <3C02BB76.8030209@umc.com.ua> <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20011206090544.A45277@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011206090544.A45277@hub.freebsd.org>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:05:45AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:05:45AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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!! > I wouldn't say naive, just under-informed (like me) > 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]. > Then OpenOffice is guilty of both? > The amount of Linux'isms in the build for i386 hosts is large, along with > assumptions all over the place. > Is there anything the under-informed can do to help? Or is this the exclusive domain of those rare linux/BSD gods we ports users are so dependent on? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message