From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 05:57:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF6516A4B3 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 05:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20805.mail.yahoo.com (web20805.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 433FD43FAF for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 05:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from salbrig@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031007125716.50102.qmail@web20805.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.208.228.132] by web20805.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 05:57:16 PDT Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 05:57:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Albright To: Seva Fwd , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20031007062319.68476.qmail@web40707.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: salbrig@yahoo.com Subject: Re: openoffice port build on FreeBSD 4.9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:57:18 -0000 > 3) Something wrong in your ports tree (and you > definitelly has this issue due to OO-1.0.3 - from the > latest ports tree, however mozilla-1.0.2 is at least > half year old, and jdk-1.3.1p8_2 is also replaced > with jdk-1.3.1p9) I have already installed Mozilla, so I will need to portupgrade then correct? Also, I CVSup source and ports every morning (is this a bad idea?) I thought this would update jdk-1.3.1p8_2 to p9 is that not correct thinking? > Fixes are: > 1) Install OO from package (i.e. precompiled) - it > is much simpler and in most cases is good enough I tried this by downloading openoffice-1.1RC4.tgz, unzipped it, and then did a pkg_add, and had problems (I cannot remember the exactly the errors, I will see if I can reproduce them and add that info later). > 2) CVSup your ports tree to latest > Then you could try to build OO without JDK > or consult http://www.freebsd.org/java on > jdk installation procedure I have not tried it without JDK, so I will look into those options above. > 3) As soon as you are a "good enough" investigate > FreeBSD handbook, then buy a book (or books) > about FreeBSD. I think you'll find recomended > reading on www.freebsd.org. > And dont forget that knowlege is nothing without > practice :o) I have a couple on the way, just not here in time to tackle this problem. Thanks for your help. Stephen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com