Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:24:40 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>, gabor@zahemszky.hu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can we use LibreOffice Base pkg? Message-ID: <20181031052440.e669a92a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <db25dc1e-2352-4d2a-807f-4c694830ff35@yandex.com> References: <3fcd0b75bd78cdc1f61faa5a8358824d@zahemszky.hu> <a58138b1581fc0067d517f49fa1fd96a@zahemszky.hu> <20181030224900.39543025@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <db25dc1e-2352-4d2a-807f-4c694830ff35@yandex.com>
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:08:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > On 10/31/18 03:19, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:23:53 +0100 gabor@zahemszky.hu wrote: > >> It's great. But my question is: how can I create a database with LO > >> Base. > >> Under Linux (and maybe under Windows), HSQLDB is the built-in database > >> in LO. And from LO Base, I can create a new "internal" DB (using > >> HSQLDB). > >> But I cannot create it under FreeBSD. I have LO installed. I tried to > >> create database, but I could not. Please try it! > > > > You probably have to build libreoffice yourself with the JAVA option > > enabled. The binary package doesn't have it enabled. > > > Hi Tijl/others, > > I use LO myself occasionally, and I used to wonder why its Base was > totally unworkable under FreeBSD. > > Now that you point out that, for Base to work, LO has to be built from > ports with JAVA on, it raises the question why the package has JAVA > support off. It is possible that licensing issues prevent packaging JAVA with the default install... *cough* Oracle! *cough* ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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