when i emerge openoffice-ximian (specifically openoffice-ximian-1.1.46) i am not able to use any of the features of openoffice that use java (e.g. JDBC). this seems to happen due to the fact that the ebuild blindly configures the package with --disable-java. this happens even though i have "java" in my USE variable. further, it seems that since openoffice was compiled with --disable-java, it is impossibly to even add runtime java support once the package is installed (i.e. /opt/Ximian-OpenOffice/program/jvmsetup does not exist). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="java" emerge openoffice-ximian 2. run oowriter 3. try and access JDBC functionality Actual Results: I get errors due to the fact that openoffice doesn't have a runtime JRE associated with it. Expected Results: If i have java in my USE flags, the package should be compiled with full java support, and dependencies, etc should reflect what is needed for that support.
I am also having a similar problem with openoffice-ximian-1.1.46 because Java is not a USE flag or required for the ebuild. If a jdk is not installed, xlst needs to be installed and it is required in the ebuild.
There is a new version (1.1.49.2) in portage now, please try that and report if your problem persists, it should have some java related bugs fixed An explanation: --disable-java should only have an effect on the compilation process not on runtime features. Also we wont be enabling the java build process again, as it creates lots of problems.
If we are wrong and there is a part that is not involved in the build process we would be happy to reenable it. It is the use of java for transformations which does create many problems.
I stand corrected on comment #2: Actually java functionality is only possible if we reenable java in the build system, otherwise jvmsetup is not even built, so you can't choose your jdk, sorry for the mistake. Anyway there are two options: *) Wait for Ximian to fix this problem (altough I don't know if this is in the works / possible) *) Introduce a local use flag to enable java in the build system (only for the people that REALLY know what they are doing and not for everyone who has java on his/her system and don't need this functionality) At the moment I tend to opt for option 1, because 2 will make maintaining the ebuild a lot more difficult (essentially I would have to test every version with the two different build systems).
won't fix this atm
There is now a version in portage which builds the java functionality again (depending on if you have java installed): openoffice-ximian-1.3.3-r1 , it's hard-masked for now, please test if it works for you
Closing this, should be fixed now
