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

[Jonathan Aquilina]

This is quite interesting Sebastian. I'm on Kubuntu on my netbook and i 
am using the openjdk. From what i have asked in the past about java jre 
and jdk you can have multiple versions installed. on mac for instance it 
comes with both the 32bit and 64bit jdk and jre.

On 12/2/10 8:22 PM, Sebastian Spaeth 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.
>
>>>> [ 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).
>
> 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.
>
> +1 for disabling. Or let's include Java properly, like we include
> python. Perhaps dalvik, I am sure Oracle would like that. Oh no! :)
>
> Sebastian