From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 20:21:18 2005 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 BFEE716A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:21:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670FF43D31 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:21:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so33333wra for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:21:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=SNmWjkSGqHWeafWiYFx6QfGLEMyuakyQGAbvwcnd0Bng5OQGoMJ42aGnD2E0ntFz2VVkU9KWiZLOjxBZQxQ96XbhogWKo2GEtZ4Um5PAflNd8iWvPpdHjR4FVSyK2K+qO2izKmgoHPu6ubiF75h/VacdF4w3aQ91iYt6KHFeuyc= Received: by 10.54.56.68 with SMTP id e68mr106153wra; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:21:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:21:17 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: "cpghost@cordula.ws" In-Reply-To: <20050104200424.GB33185@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050103204341.GB26032@xor.obsecurity.org> <86wtutitns.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <41DACF99.50601@taborandtashell.net> <20050104200424.GB33185@bsdbox.farid-hajji.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:21:18 -0000 On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:04:24 +0100, 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