Re: ooo-build is coming...

[Sebastian Otaegui <mplayer argentina com>]

Where is the gar/tar-ball?


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:57, 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
> 
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