{"id":14,"date":"2004-01-25T09:43:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=14"},"modified":"2004-01-25T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2004-01-25T14:43:55","slug":"and-it-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/25\/and-it-built","title":{"rendered":"And it built!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following good instructions, sitting on IRC, and then basically trying to get stuff done before going to sleep, I started an OpenOffice.org build on Mac OS X at about 4.45am today. I used cws_fix645_ooo111fix2<\/code>, which isn’t the latest, but is known to work with OS X.<\/p>\n

Might I add, that Apple has a very nasty way of getting things done. I had already installed the 3 CDs they’d provided for OS X, and I still didn’t get my Developer Tools (the build complained that gcc was missing!). It was the iBook software restore CDs that made the difference; even then, I had to manually install the .mpkg files.<\/p>\n

About 9pm today (it took the build about 16 hours), OpenOffice.org 1.1.1b was built. And it works, minus the fact that during the installation there’s an error<\/a> – it looks for ooovirg<\/tt>; this will be fixed soon<\/a>. So, ignore the error, and go on using OpenOffice.org 1.1.1! Everything basically “just works”, and with regards to quirks, I’ll be sure to be writing more.<\/p>\n

So there, OOo builds on a G4 933MHz iBook with 384MB of RAM in just about 16 hours. My builds<\/a> aren’t QA’ed or anything, and we have a nasty policy of not releasing Mac OS X builds for some reason (aarnet carries 1.1.0 built in October 2003<\/a> as the latest); so write me back if you try it and it breaks. Next for FedoraPPC builds! <\/p>\n

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