OpenOffice.org and Java

prosario_2000 · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:04 am Post subject: OpenOffice.org and Java

Hi, I have compiled OpenOffice.org with java flag, however, when I go to "Tools">>"Options">>"OpenOffice.org">>"Java", and it seems that it does not locate any "Java Runtime Environment". I can't seem to add any, although I have Blackdown, Sun-JDK, and Sun-JRE installed. Can anyone point me what I'm doing wrong?

didymos · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:40 am Post subject:

Which versions of each do you have? You might want to run java-check-environment as well.
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prosario_2000 · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:24 am Post subject:

I ran java-check-environment, and this is what came out

didymos · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:16 am Post subject:

Just to make sure, when you went into the java options dialog, how long did you leave it open? It can take a little bit of time before anything appears in the list of installed JREs.
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prosario_2000 · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:22 am Post subject:

Yes, I left it open for a long time, and nothing. They simply do not appear. I click "Add" and try to go to /opt for the different jdk directories, and it does not matter where I go or what I do, it never loads any of the Java Runtime Environments. It's curious because previous versions of OpenOffice.org used to load all the Java Runtime Environments very well. Right now, I'm not sure why this is happening.

Jorgo · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:09 am Post subject:

I solved the problem on my machine. The problem is that Openoffice is a
32bit and the current Java-engine ist 64bit on a multilib installation

Try the following steps:

prosario_2000 · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject:

Yes, I saw that. I personally, and esthetically, prefer the 64-bit one. I am aware that 32-bit OpenOffice.org along with the java emulation does work. So, I wanted to find a way to make it work in 64-bit version. If I really need it, apparently I will have to uninstall the 64-bit version to install the 32-bit one, but it's ugly, I don't like it.

gallinula · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

There is a problem with some java implementations (SUN) statically linking to older libraries.

Try adding this to package.use:

x11-libs/libX11 -xcb

emerge --newuse and try openoffice java setup again. Worked for me.

Oddly, the library issue is not supposed to affect the non-proprietary java implementations but they again show up in the vm list too.

Regards

gallinula · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 2

If you are using compiz-fusion from the xeffects overlay then xcb enabled libX11 is required for compiz to work.

dizzy · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:50 am Post subject:

Or you could try CFLAGS="-DNDEBUG" emerge -av1 libxcb

This lets you use the xcb USE flag, and the java stuff will still work.

loftwyr · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject:

Thank you! That fixed it without having to lose compiz-fusion.
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Satan Klaus · n00b Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 19

You can also try this:

walterguo · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 155