Re: openoffice.org missing .jar classes

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

Dan Williams wrote:

> What I'm looking at is a good way to perhaps _build_ with Java here, but
> allow OOo to run on non-Java-enabled systems and Java-enabled systems at
> the same time.  That's not exactly easy though.

The OOo build require the jvm setup, but will work without java.
This should be doable.

> For the time being, if you'd like to use Java, I'd suggest grabbing the
> SRPM and removing the "--disable-java" from the ./configure options, and
> also commenting out all the "handle-no-solar-java" patches.

This should be a rpm switch that pathes and add --disable-java to 
configure, or doesn't patch and leaves java enabled.

Better still would be autodetection of the require java for building, 
and building correctly for a given system.

Once a java capable build is there, post-install and or the OOo-setup, 
should check for JVM and configure it. This detection starts to get 
tricky, so perhaps use a system wide "default JVM" setting, say in 
/etc/sysconfig.


Fo now though, building with java, and at least allowing users to run 
jvmsetup (renamed as ooo-jvm-setup?) would be a good start. Trying to 
get the OOo builds to integrate with the Red Hat builds is a mess.

	-Thomas