Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

[Dave Horsfall]

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