On 12/3/2017 4:14 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Jim Jagielski wrote: >>> On Dec 2, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> On 30/11/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: >>>> I think for 4.2.x and later, we have deprecated CentOS5 as a supported >>>> build system... I ran into a LOT of issues. >>> Such as, for example? >> for starters: >> o zip 3.0. >> o GIO > > OK, I now get it. You ran into issues when you tried to build *trunk* on > CentOS 5, not when you built 4.1.4 on CentOS 5. I had read your sentence > above as "We should deprecate CentOS 5 since I found lots of issues > [when building 4.1.4]". > >> Isn't that exactly what I'm doing??? > > Yes, we are on the same page: > > - The CentOS 5 guide works well and smoothly for 4.1.x > > - The CentOS 5 guide does not work any longer for trunk (for the reasons > Damjan detailed), but this is irrelevant as we'll update to CentOS 6 > anyway. > > Regards, > Andrea. That begs the Question should we add a section to the overall build guide for CentOS6? If yes I can add the section as a clone of the CentOS5 Guide with all the proper warnings and notes about it needing updating for the CentOS6 specifics.
Also will the top level build guide at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO need updating? Regards Keith
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