I'm willing to do it, but I will only have the HW to do it in a few days
(buying a new computer). Plus - I will be compiling on Debian, and I'm
not sure how adapt Debian is at compiling RPMs. If anyone else with
shorter timelines wants to volunteer, please do.
Shachar
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>Just one note
>
>On Sun, 12 May 2002, Matitiahu Allouche wrote:
>
>
>
>>I am glad to announce that IBM Israel is ready to distribute updates to
>>the source for OpenOffice word processor (swriter), aimed at providing
>>Bidi (Hebrew and Arabic) support.
>>
>>
>
>Glad to see you managed to get at least that
>
>
>
>>According to the guidelines set by our legal department, we cannot release
>>the full product, so we have built a set of diff source files and
>>associated documentation.Whoever wants to create a Bidi-enabled version
>>of swriter should do the following:
>>
>>a) Ask me (by private e-mail) to send you the package (around 600K for the
>>doc and 120K for the source diff files)
>>b) Wait patiently to receive the stuff as e-mail attachments
>>c) Read the doc
>>d) Download the full sources of OpenOffice
>>e) Apply the diff files to the OpenOffice source files as described in the
>>doc (CompilOO641d.html)
>>f) Build the OpenOffice executables (also described in the doc)
>>g) Test swriter with Hebrew
>>h) Be happy everafter?
>>
>>
>
>Just something that should be mentioned:
>
>from: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/build_faq.html
>
> How much hard drive space needed for a full build of OpenOffice.org
> including source?
>
> The current recommendation is 3GB.
>
> The source code is ~328MB
>
> The build requires 2GB
>
> The creation of an installation set requires ~300MB.
>
> How long does an OpenOffice.org build take?
>
> Our current experience is that a full build of OpenOffice.org is
> approximately 20 hours on a single CPU Pentium III with 256MB of RAM
> running Linux.
>
>
>>When the changes and build will have been verified by at least one of the
>>wise linux-il crowd, we would be very glad if somebody (iglu site?) can
>>put the update package and/or the executables on some ftp server for
>>everybody to download.
>>
>>
>
>Sure. Any comments on the binary compatibility of existing OpenOffice
>builds?
>
>
>
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