[Open Office] building ooo-build from cvs head

[David Fraser]

michael meeks wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:40 -0800, Daniel Morgan wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for your help.  I found some devel rpms for mozilla, nss, and
>> nspr at fedora.  I build using --with-mozilla
>>     
>
> 	Great :-)
>
>   
>> However, I get a configure error about missing Ant.  I found some rpms
>> for Ant, but there are WAY TOO MANY depedencies for Ant itself.  Is
>> there away I can build ooo-build without Ant or Java?
>>     
>
> 	too many dependencies ? surely something like yum will auto-fetch them
> easily enough ? of course, if it's a disk-size issue you'll have
> problems anyway - since an OO.o build will chew 4Gb.
>
> 	I forget what the state of the Fedora build is - quite possibly it'd be
> best to get the RawHide RPM and work from that - although you'll miss a
> scad of nice ooo-build features. Sadly ooo-build is not built so
> frequently on Fedora which is a shame - so there will be a few initial
> bumps like this I suspect.
I'm now doing regularly builds of all the branches on Fedora so 
hopefully this will improve through me complaining if it breaks :-)
However I'm using our own distro (called translate.org.za) as for us 
this is really less distro-focused than South Africa-focussed

Cheers

David