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

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On 02/12/10 19:31, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Sebastian, *;
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at sspaeth.de> 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
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Cheers,
Wol