[SM-Users] openoffice2-bin + jdk6-bin

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Thu Sep 27 21:16:33 EDT 2007


Quoting Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed jdk6-bin-6u2 and openoffice2-bin-2.2.1.  Then I tried
> to configure openoffice so that it uses jdk6, however when browsing
> through the options on openoffice, it doesn't seem to recognize the
> jdk path...  I've tried both the j2sdk link and the direct jdk6 one,
> and also the corresponding jre paths, and none seem to work.

Hrm, last I tried (though I didn't look closely) openoffice2-bin  
worked fine with jdk6-bin, but then I only use it to read MS Word  
files. Supposedly jdk6 is backwards compatible with JDK5.

Openoffice2-bin runs with jdk6-bin, but the help (the only part using  
Java, IIRC) is what is failing?

> It's not so bad since at least the gcj seems to be recognized by
> default since I see FSF recognized by default...
>
> Any hints on this?

The only work I've really done is to get openoffice to *compile* and  
last I checked openoffice needed the next (not out yet) gcj 4.2.x  
release, which I didn't try from CVS.

> BTW:  Is there any spell available to try compiling openoffice2
> instead of installing the binary version?

I've tried (not too hard) to get openoffice to compile, but even 2.3.0  
fails to compile without a lot of hackery. If you want to help out  
with this there's a devel-openoffice branch in our grimoire for you to  
play with. :)

-sandalle

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