On 02/12/10 19:31, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi Sebastian, *; > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:45:17 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >>>>> would anyone scream if we defaulted configure to --without-java ? >>> I would. >> I would not. > I hope not for the wrong reasons. > >>>>> [ this is primarily for developers ], should make it easier to build >>> Come on, what is hard about installing a JDK? >> My LibO build failed with the included openjdk, gcj, and sun-jre >> installed, I had to remove openjdk, and then I had to remove the gcj >> java stuff, and *only* when I had the sun stuff left, would LibO >> actually build without screaming about not being able to detect >> Java. (when I actually had java installed and in my path). > Then this is a regression, a bug that needs to be fixed, and not > circumvented by just closing your eyes and pretending the problem > would not exist. OpenJDK definitely is supported, gcj should still be, > but nowadays is less used. >
I would agree with this. This is my problem with ant - I have java but not ant installed, it worked for me on the old system, and it now fails. >> I spent about 3 hours to get the right stuff installed. During >> configure time (which I run often), I am always annoyed as the "checking >> for ant..." part takes longest. > Well - "my breaks don't work, so I demand a louder horn on my car..." > > Even when you got so much trouble getting it to work, you could have > deviated from the default and have specified --without-java Except that's no use for me :-) I want to work on Base. No java, no Base! > ciao > Christian > _______________________________________________ Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
