Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:20 pm Post subject: --with-system -tags (again)
Hi Patrick, Ed, others.
Now that the baseline OOo has been lifted to 2.0.2, I'd encourage you to use more of those --with-system-xxx -flags in OOo configure. There was quite a bit of fixing work for those flags (both gcc 4.0 and 3.3) for OOo 2.0.2.
However, of those either expat or libxml break when building in Panther. But that is easy to check, since the configure will not succeed.
After you get past the configure, there should not be any build problems
In addition to saving some building time, the download size will be smaller for end users, especially if you use --with-python (saves 10Mb uncompressed).
Sorry, but I'm not going with this approach. Why? Because I have found on numerous occasions that standard Mac OS X command and libraries (e.g. cp, gnutar, pax, etc.) are missing or broken on a small, but noticeable number of machines.
Debugging these has cost me hundreds of hours of work and recoding so I have no intention of increasing my dependency of standard but infrequently used OS commands and libraries for the sake of making the NeoOffice installation size marginally smaller.
Sorry, but I'm not going with this approach. Why? Because I have found on numerous occasions that standard Mac OS X command and libraries (e.g. cp, gnutar, pax, etc.) are missing or broken on a small, but noticeable number of machines.
Debugging these has cost me hundreds of hours of work and recoding so I have no intention of increasing my dependency of standard but infrequently used OS commands and libraries for the sake of making the NeoOffice installation size marginally smaller.
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:34 am Post subject:
Just another historical legacy example: on 10.3 and earlier systems, the installation of the "BSD Subsystem" (which includes many basic command line utilities used in launching scripts and the like) was something that was an optional install. This caused all kinds of evilness with installation since it was possible to have a valid OS X install that didn't have all of the tools necessary to run scripts. On 10.4 I don't think it's possible to turn this off any more, but still it's just an example of how it's possible for different folks' system configs (even if inadvertant) to cause some gnarly issues.
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