OpenOffice.org and Java in Fedora

[Roland Käser]

Hi Dan

Can You exaclty describe whats the difficult therms in the Java licence? 
And why it hinders to integrate Java to the Fedora Core?

Roland

Dan Williams schrieb:

>Hi,
>
>I've completed adding the required bits to the specfile.  I hope to
>release a 1.1.0-7 fairly soon that includes the enable-java stuff and RH
>9 build support for those of you wanting it.  Unfortunately, Mozilla
>address book integration won't work on RH9 because the system mozilla is
>built with gcc 2.96 and OOo with 3.2.2...  However, the rest should be
>fine (oh, minus startup-notification though).
>
>I also merged required enable-java stuff to gnome.org OOo (ie Ximianized
>OOo) so when I switch over to that you'll have it if you'd like it.
>
>If you do build with Java, the following things are true:
>
>1) openoffice.org RPM will require libawt.so
>2) RPMs will be named as such:
>openoffice.org-1.1.0-7.withjava.rpm
>openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-7.withjava.rpm
>openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-7.withjava.rpm
>
>Still for the future, Red Hat won't be building and distributing
>Java-enabled builds of OOo for Fedora.  This will change immediately
>when Java gets a license compatible with the license under which Fedora
>is distributed, or when gcj support gets into OOo.
>
>Cheers,
>Dan
>
>On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:40, ByteEnable wrote:
>  
>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>After some thought and discussion, I've come to the following
>>>conclusion:
>>>
>>>Since Fedora does not include Java for licensing reasons, all Red
>>>Hat-built OpenOffice.org RPMs for Fedora will NOT include Java support,
>>>and will NOT be built with Java enabled.  It's not good form to supply
>>>an RPM that cannot be built on the platform it is intended for. 
>>>Therefore, when you install Fedora and OOo, anything that requires Java
>>>will not function.
>>>
>>>However, I will attempt to keep a "Java-enable" switch in the specfile
>>>that will allow Java-enabled building on Fedora, provided you have a
>>>JRE/JDK installed.  I will attempt to keep Java-enabled building
>>>up-to-date and functional.
>>>
>>>In the future, I hope OOo will compile using gcj or other free Java
>>>environments.  This is something we'll be working towards, and other
>>>shave this same goal in mind (Debian).  When gcj is able to compile the
>>>Java bits of OOo, the Fedora RPMs will include those patches.  Its
>>>      
>>>
>>going
>>    
>>
>>>to mean some work though.
>>>
>>>So in summary, I'm not going to build Java-enabled RPMs of OOo for the
>>>time being.  But if you'd like them, I'm happy to keep it possible (and
>>>will try to keep it building out-of-the-box with a specfile switch). 
>>>      
>>>
>>If
>>    
>>
>>>anyone would like to help out in getting OOo to work with gcj or other
>>>free Java environments, by all means contact me and I'll try to point
>>>you in the right direction.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Dan
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi Dan,
>>
>>Could you also move the -mcpu override's in solenv/inc/ into the spec
>>file using a variable?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Byte
>>
>>
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