And it built!
Following good instructions, sitting on IRC, and then basically trying to get stuff done before going to sleep, I started an OpenOffice.org build on Mac OS X at about 4.45am today. I used cws_fix645_ooo111fix2, which isn’t the latest, but is known to work with OS X.
Might I add, that Apple has a very nasty way of getting things done. I had already installed the 3 CDs they’d provided for OS X, and I still didn’t get my Developer Tools (the build complained that gcc was missing!). It was the iBook software restore CDs that made the difference; even then, I had to manually install the .mpkg files.
About 9pm today (it took the build about 16 hours), OpenOffice.org 1.1.1b was built. And it works, minus the fact that during the installation there’s an error – it looks for ooovirg; this will be fixed soon. So, ignore the error, and go on using OpenOffice.org 1.1.1! Everything basically “just works”, and with regards to quirks, I’ll be sure to be writing more.
So there, OOo builds on a G4 933MHz iBook with 384MB of RAM in just about 16 hours. My builds aren’t QA’ed or anything, and we have a nasty policy of not releasing Mac OS X builds for some reason (aarnet carries 1.1.0 built in October 2003 as the latest); so write me back if you try it and it breaks. Next for FedoraPPC builds!
