openoffice and java

[David Booth]

On Friday 04 April 2008, eculp wrote:
> Quoting Volker Glatz <softwareleute at freenet.de>:
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >>
> >> the easy out is to install a jdk-15 before building openoffice
> >> as it is required for the build.  The java/diablo-jdk15 port is
> >> probably the quickest to install.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > I installed java/diablo-jdk15. openoffice is now compiling.
>
> For some reason, I just built Java/diablo-jdk5 on a Current amd64
> and two stable i386, machines without any problem and tried to
> build openoffice.org-2 and get the same error on all:
>
> checking whether to add custom build version... no
> checking whether to build with Java support... yes
> checking the installed JDK... test: 0: unexpected operator
> test: 0: unexpected operator
> test: 0: unexpected operator
> test: 0: unexpected operator
> configure: error: JDK is too old, you need at least 1.3
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>
> All three machines are up to date with cvs and kernels no more than
> a week old.
>
> Any one have any idea why it sees diablo-jdk-15 as older than 1.3.
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ed
>
I do not have a suggested fix, but I found similar behavior when I 
tried to compile it with JDK 1.6.  Diablo 1.5 worked fine for me 
though.