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> No, I don't have fink or macport or anything else similar installed. OK, good. > The Java situation now is go and grab the latest binary from Oracle, Apple > stopped rolling its own. Yes, I know, and that is complicated enough that I really don't like having to enforce that on potential new developers who might not be the least interested in Java. Ideally we would want LibreOffice to be buildable without any 3rd-party software that has to be separately installed. Half-jokingly, I would say that typically there are two kinds of new developers who run into trouble when attempting to build LibreOffice the first time on OS X: 1) those who know too little and get confused by some trivial hickup, and 2) those who know too much and have "too new" or otherwise non-standard tools installed that the build mechanism doesn't expect and get confused by. > Without Java can I still run LibreOffice? Sure. You will miss the built-in HSQLDB in Base and some other less important functionality, I don't remember exactly. (Of course it is a matter of opinion whether some functionality is important or not... but for what I think is the core functionality, "normal" Writer, Calc and Impress use, it shouldn't hurt if you don't have the Java bits enabled.) > PS: I have experience in C and OpenMP. Is there any part of LO where I can > immediately put my experience in them to work? Our code is C++ (and not necessarily very cleanly designed and written C++, although that is of course a matter of opinion). There are only a handful of files in C. We don't use OpenMP, and I thought Clang doesn't support OpenMP? To get something to work on, have a look at our Easy Hacks, which is a set of hopefully easy tasks that beginners can work on to get to know the codebase. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice