[Libreoffice] defaulting to --without-java ... (?)

Jonathan Aquilina eagles051387 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 08:34:59 PST 2010


would that also fix the issue of LO not finding junit jar and needing to 
use --without-junit when running ./autogen.sh?

On 12/2/10 5:33 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
> So,
>
> 	As part of the quest to make LibreOffice easier to build; and in
> parallel to annoy developers who are missing those java implemented
> features into re-writing them into C++, I was wondering:
>
> 	would anyone scream if we defaulted configure to --without-java ?
> [ this is primarily for developers ], should make it easier to build
> (without the bogus version dependencies), quicker to compile, and faster
> to run (I hope) ;-)
>
> 	It might also help us address some of the nasties on Windows - where we
> cannot easily ship a JRE everywhere.
>
> 	Rumour has it that Kendy has fixed the perennial dialog warning that
> there is no JRE installed - that was simply extremely annoying; but no
> doubt there are other problems.
>
> 	You have a day to scream 'STOP', 'LOOK', 'LISTEN' :-) failing that I
> suggest we tweak the default tomorrow.
>
> 	Thanks,
>
> 		Michael.
>



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