On Tuesday 21 March 2006 07:24, Ian Darwin wrote: > > Attached is a port that for the binary version of OpenOffice.
> The problem I have is that if you have a native Java on your path, > the startup script hangs at the "javaldr" command. Could you add a check > for whether jdk-linux or jdk-1.x is installed, or otherwise found out > which, so people don't have to dement their paths just to use soffice? > Or even just patch out javaldr altogether, if what it wants to do > can't be done in our environment? > > Otherwise I think it's a good thing - thanks! Clearly a native port > would be better, but that's a longer term goal. I tested on i386, 3/23 snapshot. Most packages on the system were installed from the 2/26 packages. It's working for a simple test: open a simple Excel file, output a pdf; Open a new Text document, paste in some text, change fonts, save as Word doc. I did have a startup issue with java, however. When I leave /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0/jre/bin in the $PATH, soffice never launches. The splash screen comes up & 3 or 4 soffice processes startup & consume processor until killed. If I replace /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0/jre/bin with /usr/local/jdk-1.3.1-linux/jre/bin in the $PATH, soffice starts up, but on opening a document the same thing happens. If I omit java from the $PATH, it seems to work. I'm setting the PATH at the top of /usr/local/openoffice/programs/soffice, since that seemed to be the place to export it w/o losing java for the rest of my programs. Frank
