openoffice.org-3 builds with jdk16

Jan Henrik Sylvester me at janh.de
Wed Jul 23 09:02:15 UTC 2008


I just build openoffice.org-3 with jdk16 (having changed the ooo3 
Makefile) -- it works! I did it on 7.0-RELEASE, but the same should 
apply anywhere.

I think JAVA_VERSION should be 1.4+ or 1.5+ in the port. Now that the 
Foundation published Diablo 1.6, building ooo3 got easier.

Background: hsqldb that comes with ooo is known not to compile with 
jdk16 (but it runs). ooo was waiting for hsqldb 1.9.0 to come out of 
beta, which would fix the issue. That still has not happened. See the 
corresponding ooo bug report: 
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72515

Anyhow, eventually for ooo3 some patches were integrated in April to 
make the old hsqldb compile with jdk16: 
http://tools.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?Id=6571&OpenOnly=false&Section=Files

Our openoffice.org-3-devel is beyond the milestone that got the patches 
for some time now. I could not understand how to find out if it is in 
the beta, too, but as I said, my testing indicated that 3.0.0.b2 is patched.

Thus, the issue that was talked about in the last few days seems to be 
artificial, because the port did not got changed back after the patch 
was integrated to ooo.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik


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