From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 07:23:08 2003 Return-Path: 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 81DFB16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:23:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5FC43D09 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:23:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) Received: from moe.howse.homeunix.net (midsouth-24-151-208-111.westtn.chartertn.net [24.151.208.111]) hBAFHdWg001915; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:17:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chowse@charter.net) From: Charles Howse To: Steve Bertrand , Gautam Gopalakrishnan Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:17:39 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200312091544.54910.chowse@charter.net> <20031210134700.GA36890@madras.dyndns.org> <1071064422.393.0.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca> In-Reply-To: <1071064422.393.0.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312100917.39214.chowse@charter.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:23:08 -0000 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:53 am, Steve Bertrand wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:47, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > > > You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you? > > > That's where I'm going with this, but I have to get jdk working first. > > > attempting to install jdk takes 6+ hrs on my machine. :-) > > > > I just got both working less than a week back. I first fetched the > > packages for jdk14 so that all is ready for compilation. Just make sure > > you have plenty of swap too (I needed atleast 128M). If that's your > > problem, you could add some space in a swap file for now and then delete > > it later (see the handbook). The error message is mostly visible in ttyv0 > > (apart from the errors on the screen) > > > > # cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14 > > # make fetch-recursive > > # make install clean > > # (go to sleep...) > > Me too. Worked ok on fresh 4.9 install. > > > openoffice-1.1 takes about 15 hrs on my celeron 1.7Ghz with 256 MB ram. > > About 20 hrs on IBM Thinkpad 700 celeron. > > Steve > > > Hope that was of some use... > > Gautam That's much help, thanks! OK, next question... Assuming I get OO installed, what versions of MS Office files will it open? I have need to open MS Office *XP* files. (cross fingers) -- Thanks, Charles http://howse.homeunix.net:8080 Random Murphy's Law: A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.