[ooo-build] [Fwd: Re: [ext-website] Extention: Sun Presenter Console]

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

Kálmán "KAMI" Szalai wrote:
> Please see the attached mail.

No news. Jürgens reaction also is not surprising to me at all.

> the presenter console is implemented in C++ and is tested only with the  
> vanilla builds of OpenOffice.org that comes directly from the  
> OpenOffice.org website.
>
> As far as i know Novell breaks the binary compatibility in their own  
> build that comes with Suse. That means the presenter console can't find  
> the necessary compatible libs in a Suse build.

Yes, they build without STLport even for i386.

That binary compat thing is *exactly* why I
 - build with stlport
 - build with stlport4.x even when using system-stlport
on i386 still.

> That is a really frustrating situation for all users of this and maybe  
> other C++ extensions but we can't solve this issue.
>
> If you really want to use the presenter screen, you have to download and  
> install an OpenOffice.org version directly from our website.

Or SuSE finally ships the extension as a package...
(it's a by-product of a "normal" OOo build anyway when you
--enable-presenter-console)

Regards,

Rene