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

[Caolan McNamara]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 21:45 +0200, KamiHír wrote:
> Ciao!
> 
> Petr Mladek írta: 
> > On Monday 23 April 2007 15:28, Kami wrote:
> >   
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  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.
> Which version of which distrib should be best? 

I'd have great success in creating "vanilla" install sets which are installable by 
e.g. Hamburg QA no a variety of older distros by building in a Fedora Core 3 chroot

i.e. this script http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/ooocvs/makefc3chroot
to make one and then manually repeat the mount --bind lines and a
chroot /location/of/env and build away inside that. That's my solution,
your mileage may vary. The world of a Linux ISV is not easy :-)

C.