[Open Office] no suitable windowing system found, exiting.

[Petr Mladek]

On Monday 23 April 2007 15:28, Kami wrote:
> Hello!
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>  I have build an sightly moded vanilla OpenOffice.org 2.2 patched with some
> ooo-build's patches and some other smaller patches. I build on Ubuntu Linux
> latest (7.0.4) and the compiled binary works well on it. But other system
> has a problem with it. I tried it on Slackware and Fedora C6 an I got "no
> suitable windowing system found, exiting." error messages. This is also
> applies when I run it as root. I did and strace log that I attached to this
> letter. Could you be so kind to help me out the possible root cause of
> problem and with the possible solutions?

You will have a higher chance to build an universal OOo packages if you do it 
on a rather old system. Also do not forget to disable all the system stuff 
(try config_office/configure --help and check for --without-system-XXX).

Note that distributions usually include compat packages with older libraries 
but not to the contrary.

You might also try the O3 Build CD, see 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/O3-build. It is based on the build 
environment used by Sun. I tested only the first version and had some 
problems with it. I am not sure if it is already usable...

Also Pavel Janik does universal builds, so he might help you.



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Best Regards,

Petr Mladek
software developer
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