Re: Building ant from etch
--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:20:32PM +0000, Joseph Haig wrote:
> > I am backporting ant-1.6.5 from testing to stable (as part of the
> > process of attempting to backport openoffice.org) and it seems to
> have
>
> You shouldn't need to do that. The only reason for depending on Ant
> 1.6.5 is because of the dependency on gcj-4.0. So, unless you are
> backporting all of gcc-4.0, you don't need the newer Ant.
>
That is the case, gcj-4.0 is a build dependency for Openoffice. Of
course, it is entirely possible that I am missing something vital, as
this is only my second attempt at backporting. Is it possible (and
sensible) to override the build dependency and use the version of gcc
in stable?
Thanks,
Joe
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