Caolan McNamara writes: > I know of successful builds and deployment from the OOo src.rpm under > RHEL-4 by getting the rawhide gcc src.rpm and building it as a > replacement for the gcc4 package, and then rebuilding the ooo src.rpm. > The OOo spec has support for building c/c++ with gcc 3 and the java bits > with gcj4. Thanks a lot for your reply! I _was_ wondering whether there was a way to update the gcc4 packages and build OOo that way. I look for instructions on this or just try to figure it out on my own. > The upstream release are also in RPMS, which install into /opt. They'll > be larger and slower than ours (piles of redundant duplicate libs), have > the old file picker by default, not be available for ppc, not have the > langpacks like we do, not have dictionaries for a pile of languages. But > they should install and work under fc3. I believe the file picker is the new one in the betas from openoffice.org, but other than that, I know it is not a good solution. Especially RPMs installing in /opt is a major pain, since /opt is shared via NFS at our site. Mikko
