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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] new section office?
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:25:01 +0200

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:18:14AM +0000, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:16:32 -0500, Geoffrey Derber wrote
>
> [...]
> > dedicated maintainer. It's been a long time since openoffice has
> > succesfully compiled for anyone. The original developer at one
> > point even decided to give up on the spell because it was so
> > difficult, and he was tired of working on it. I've picked up on it
> > recently, in the last few days, and it fails after about 17 hrs for
> > me. Waiting 17hrs, hoping that a spell will work, to find it fail
> > can be frustraiting.
>
> Geoff,
>
> Just a small correction - I hadn't given up on maintaining the OO spell -
> in
> fact, I was trying to get it to work rewriting it, adapting the scripts in
> Mandrake's source RPM. But I have been chronically short of time, which in
> this case almost amounted to having given up on the spell.
> Besides that, the stupid policies at work (no laptops connected to the
> company network, no webmail, reduced use of the internet, etc.) managed to
> reduce the litle time I had.
> I was happy when I saw a new OO spell, based on the 1.1 branch. I do hope
> it
> will need less hacks and patches than the ones using the 1.0 branch - we
> need
> that spell working.
>
> Ok, I've ranted enough - now that I am "free" of the OO spell, time to try
> getting a arm cross compile working.

Did anyone try the oobuild stuff in gnome-cvs? it's supposed to
download, compile and install OO. Maybe some of the stuff in there could
be useful.

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Arwed v. Merkatz
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