How can we use LibreOffice Base pkg?

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:08:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> On 10/31/18 03:19, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:23:53 +0100 gabor at zahemszky.hu wrote:
> >> It's great. But my question is: how can I create a database with LO
> >> Base.
> >> Under Linux (and maybe under Windows), HSQLDB is the built-in database
> >> in LO. And from LO Base, I can create a new "internal" DB (using
> >> HSQLDB).
> >> But I cannot create it under FreeBSD. I have LO installed. I tried to
> >> create database, but I could not. Please try it!
> > 
> > You probably have to build libreoffice yourself with the JAVA option
> > enabled.  The binary package doesn't have it enabled.
> 
> 
> Hi Tijl/others,
> 
> I use LO myself occasionally, and I used to wonder why its Base was 
> totally unworkable under FreeBSD.
> 
> Now that you point out that, for Base to work, LO has to be built from 
> ports with JAVA on, it raises the question why the package has JAVA 
> support off.

It is possible that licensing issues prevent packaging JAVA
with the default install... *cough* Oracle! *cough* ;-)



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