Compiling OpenOffice
I decided to upgrade to OpenOffice version 2 as I wanted to use oodraw to make some flowcharts. Emerging software on gentoo involves compiling it (though you can install binary package s if you really want) and OpenOffice weighs in at a hefty 150MB download. I think it will only finish compiling tomorrow morning. Meanwhile it does its best to entertain you
Use gcc33: ”
ccache: no
icecream: no
Checking for source packages in /usr/portage/distfiles
Looking for OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2 … ok
Unpacking OO.o build tree – [ go make some tea ] …
After telling me it is not going to use icecream and giving me some time to make some tea it tells me…
Fixing unfortunate snafus
Thats good to know. I wouldn’t want to wake up in the morning to unfortunate snafus.
Ps. Happy New Year everyone.
Updated to Add: It is 11 in the morning now. Still compiling….. 
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:44 am
Is there a reason that you are not using the binary package?
January 3rd, 2006 at 2:27 am
It is mostly all about USE flags (I like to keep gnome off my system)
and a little bit about CFLAGS
January 3rd, 2006 at 7:20 pm
The openoffice-bin package only has two USE flags: gnome and java. If you disabled the first, gnome-specific stuff would not be installed.
I cannot help you with the CFLAGS stuff, though.