From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 7 08:09:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA5E16C563; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 07:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from parrot.aev.net (parrot.aev.net [212.31.247.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4767A43D55; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 07:51:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-46-136.51-151.net24.it [151.51.136.46]) (authenticated bits=128) by parrot.aev.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k577vCid055627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:57:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Received: from [10.1.2.18] (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.13.6/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k577oL4Z053282; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:50:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml.diespammer@netfence.it) Message-ID: <44868543.4060304@netfence.it> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:50:27 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44slmrr2t2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <447E9764.1030107@netfence.it> <44d5dtqdyu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44u074egvr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <447FDAA4.60705@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <447FDAA4.60705@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 212.31.247.179 Cc: subhro.kar@gmail.com Subject: Re: Openoffice compilation failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:09:10 -0000 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I saw an email that suggested that the problem is that the epm that > comes bundled with the openoffice source has a problem with argument > lines that are too long. > > Changing the name of the ports directory to /usr/p fixed it for me. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks and Thanks again!!!! Changing my WRKDIRPREFIX (which was very long) to "/t", let me finally compile the latest OpenOffice-2.0. This is obviously a bug in the sources themselves, but it's something we can live with. However, I think at least it should be mentioned somewhere, maybe some ECHO_MSG in a pre-everything: in the Makefile. It would have saved me several months and compilation retries. bye & Thanks av.