From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 08:18:18 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 8ABDA37B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 08:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA3843F3F for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 08:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (sheba.polands.org [172.16.1.33]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4VFIFNP079337; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:18:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4VFIFUQ031486; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:18:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djp@sheba.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4VFIE2X031485; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:18:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:18:14 -0500 From: Doug Poland To: David Gerard Message-ID: <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org> References: <20030531150033.GM16799@thingy.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030531150033.GM16799@thingy.apana.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE 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: Sat, 31 May 2003 15:18:18 -0000 On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote: > > OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, it > came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at that time. > > So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 from > ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of works. It > starts up, but crashes when you try to save anything (dies with an internal > error). > > The README claims it works with FreeBSD 4.5 and up, but I'll believe that > when I see it doing so. > > What are others' experiences so far? Is there some undocumented hoop one > must jump through to get it to behave itself? > I had been using linux binaries with success. I've been trying to build native 1.0.3 but the build keeps failing. I've never been able to compile any version of OO.org from source. -- Regards, Doug