Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:32:51 +0000 From: Paul =?iso-8859-1?Q?RichardsS=FD?= <paul@originative.co.uk> To: John Russell <jr@paranoia.demon.nl> Cc: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>, jmutter@ds.net, Tom Messmer <messmer@endpage.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staroffice port Message-ID: <38920B03.EDF2C2EA@originative.co.uk> References: <200001281559.QAA73203@gazelle.bigmama.xx>
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John Russell wrote: > > I was not able to get it going before either, but this time it was successful. > > I needed to make clean; make install; make post-install then I needed to > rename my old Office51 directory, next I made a symbolic link from /bin/test > to /usr/bin/test. This time when I ran make install-user it worked and now > Star Office also works. > > John > The symbolic link is what fixed it. You're previous installation was probably ok but you need to run it with /compat/linux/bin/sh so that the soffice shell script runs in the Linux environment. What I ended up doing was changing the the #!/bin/sh to #!/compat/linux/bin/sh in the soffice startup script. That way the change is contained within StarOffice so should I deinstall it there's no other cruft, like a symbolic link, left behind. It's also safer since soffice is then guaranteed to run in the Linux environment, whereas with a link there might still be other inconsistencies in running the shell script in the FreeBSD environment. I think the port should fix that script up before it installs then there wouldn't be any problems. Paul Richards Originative Solutions Ltd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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