ooo-build is coming...

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

Hey gang,

Just to keep you entirely shitscared, the next release of GARNOME will
include Michael Meeks' ooo-build tarball, which assists in the process of
building OpenOffice.org with GNOME-integration patches (which you've
probably seen in Ximian screenshots and the like).

Be afraid:

  $ du -sh download/*
  140M    download/OOO_1_1_0.tar.bz2
  9.6M    download/binutils-2.13.2.1.tar.bz2
  20M     download/gcc-3.2.2.tar.bz2
  39M     download/j2sdk-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.tar.bz2
  696k    download/ooo-build-1.1.42.tar.gz
  1.1M    download/ooo-icons-OOO_1_1-1.tar.gz

Not for the light hearted, OOo itself requires about 4GB free space to
build, and almost a weekend, depending on the speed of your machine. Yes, it
actually requires its own binutils and gcc! 8)

I'm not going to build it myself, but I'm hoping there is someone BATSHIT
INSANE enough on this list to give it a go and help Michael out a bit. :-)

Thanks,

- Jeff

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