From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 10:50:19 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 890F537B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lyta.telenor.se (lyta.telenor.se [213.150.135.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9578243F75 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: from pcmob.mwr.se (62.5.66.76 [62.5.66.76]) by lyta.telenor.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.1) with ESMTP id 610959.399738.1054.0s935967lyta ; Sat, 31 May 2003 18:48:58 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands Organization: qbranch To: Doug Poland , David Gerard Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:48:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030531150033.GM16799@thingy.apana.org.au> <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305311848.24356.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> 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 17:50:19 -0000 On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:18 pm, Doug Poland wrote: > 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. why not use the freebsd package ? :- http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/