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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 04:32:37PM -0400, John Wynstra wrote:
> Thanks for the solution to my Firefox/Thunderbird woes.  All cured now.  
> The answer was to add prefs to Thunderbird to allow Firefox in as 
> suggested by Tore Lund.  Since these preferences do not exist already 
> they need to be added manually to a file.
> 
> Now I am trying to build Open Office for access to word files.  The make 
> install dies at the point where the java files need to be manually 
> installed.  I did that but this version of Open Office requires older 
> versions of java.

I built openoffice and jdk15 just last week without any problems. There
was no requirement for an older version of java, just jdk15. Have
you updated your ports tree?

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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