Re: ooo-build is coming...

[Eric Matthews <webmaster gotoeric com>]

I'm up for this as well.. 

I have an Athlon XP 2000+ that runs 24 hours a day and is open for
compiling, and plenty of space.  Let me know the URL and I'll be happy
to give it a try.

Eric

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 15:09, Stef van der Made wrote:
> Where is the download I still have 9Gig of diskspace and CPU cycles to 
> spare :-))) I'm willing to give it a go.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Stef
> 
> Shaun ONeil wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:57, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia         http://lca2004.linux.org.au/
> >> 
> >>    "Python amazes me for its concision. The current prototype is all of
> >>       900 lines of code, yet it contains a lexer, parser (recursive
> >>       descent), core language interpreter, and parallelizing process
> >>                      spawner." - Raph Levien on Rebar
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >If my first thought is "sounds fun!", should I be seeking rehab?
> >
> >Sounds like a _great_ burn-in test to me. I fear it may push garnome
> >onto it's own partition soon tho <que beavis'n'butthead laughter>
> >
> >Shaun
> >
> >
> >  
> >