OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 package compile options

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Thu Aug 9 09:18:31 PDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:53:20PM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:48:52 -0500 (CDT)
> "Doug Poland" <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> > 
> > How can I tell if the package that is openoffice.org-2.2.1 has CUPS
> > support compiled in?
> > 
> > Traditionally, I've built OO.org from source to ensure I have CUPS
> > enabled, but it'll save me a bunch of time if the package is already
> > there.
> 
> 
> As you see on
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=openoffice.org-2.2.1
> 
> CUPS (cups-base) is not listed as a dependency. 
> 
> Packages are always built with default options you can find in files
> inside the ports tree, without alterations from /var/db/ports/*/options, 
> configuration files like /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf (for portupgrade), 
> etc. This means that OpenOffice package is (at this moment) built without 
> CUPS support because, according to what is stated in
> /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/, CUPS support has to be
> explicitly requested, in which case it will be added as a dependency.
> 
> Nikola Le??i??
>
Thank you very much for that thorough explanation.


-- 
Regards,
Doug


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