OO.org2

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:36 -0500, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 19:45 +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:10 +0000, Paul wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > > So, it is in a beta candidate release now. The question is, is it going
> >> > > to be considered for FC4 or is FC4 going to be 1.1.x?
> >> > 
> >> > FC4 has slipped from the schedule slightly, so it the chances are that
> >> > if OOo2 is released (say) 1st week of April as a release, it stands a
> >> > good chance of being in.
> >> > 
> >> > Of course, I don't work for RH, so could be just speaking out of my
> >> > backside on that one.
> >> 
> >> Caolan has had packages building for quite a while now, and if the damn
> >> thing doesn't keep failing to build on PPC, it should be out in Rawhide
> >> by early next week.  Last I heard, the release for OOo 2.0 was going to
> >> be "April/May", and since FC4 is slated for a June release, chances of
> >> OOo 2.0 Final being in FC4 a looking good.
> >
> >After an astonishing 20 hour build 1.9.81 should materialize soon. There
> >are some known non-specific to fedora bugs so searching the
> >qa.openoffice.org for your symptoms is likely to explain most problems,
> >but feel free to log issues for unreported upstream issues against
> >openoffice.org's fedora bugzilla component.
> >
> >If gcj/java guys want to poke at the java stuff that builds the
> >helpcontent2 directory to speed up the slowest build part, that would be
> >appreciated :-)
> >
> 
> Are you building bytecode or native objects?  The rawhide
> java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel has a fix to make ecj run natively which
> speeds up bytecode compilation 2-3 times.  We're planning on
> natively-compiling rawhide ant -- that will likely further reduce build
> times.

That would be 'gij' at this time.

/usr/bin/gij -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -
Djava.library.path=/usr/src/build/532736-
i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/lib -
cp .:../../unxlngi6.pro/class::/usr/src/build/532736-
i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/jaxp.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/parser.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/xt.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/unoil.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/ridl.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/jurt.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/jut.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/xmlsearch.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/db.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/xmlsearch.jar:/usr/src/build/532736-i386/BUILD/SRC680_m81/solver/680/unxlngi6.pro/bin/xmlhelp.jar com.sun.star.help.HelpLinker @/tmp/mkfRPrRw

As an example.  This particular step of the process is done quite a few
times, and even just this one invocation of gij took 5 minutes in my
observation last night on bugs.build (900Mhz Xeon).  Caolan has more
details, he was going to look at compiling a native binary of HelpLinker
soon.

Dan