Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 18:48:23 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Message-ID: <200305311848.24356.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> In-Reply-To: <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org> References: <20030531150033.GM16799@thingy.apana.org.au> <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org>
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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/
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