Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:21:17 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> To: "cpghost@cordula.ws" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? Message-ID: <bc5b638505010412216f3e09cc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050104200424.GB33185@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> References: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <Pine.BSI.4.61.0501042340250.12968@dave.horsfall.org> <41DACF99.50601@taborandtashell.net> <20050104200424.GB33185@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net>
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:04:24 +0100, cpghost@cordula.ws <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:17:13AM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > Dave Horsfall wrote: > > >On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > > > > > > >>direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html > > > > > > > > >And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops > > >do we have to jump through? > > > > I did it, and it wasn't hard, just confusing. It is confusing because > > you need to know that: > > > > 1. You need the linprocfs mounted to make java/linux-sun-jdk14 > > 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice > > (even though this is not listed as a dependency). > > > > Note: this is from my memory, which is not always 100% what it should be. > > Installing native jdk14 isn't that hard, as long as you follow the > instructions to the letter. > > I've tried to compile openoffice from scratch using the port (it worked > before), but this time it bombed near the end with a program 'lzip' > dumping core because it was fed a wrong package list (?). I tried to > track the problem down, but it was too deeply hidden within the OO > build process, so I finally gave up and fetched the binary package which > works perfectly. This was 2 weeks ago; perhaps OO compiles perfectly now? It does; at least, it did on Sunday afternoon ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate
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