From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 13:32:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.originative.co.uk (no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk [194.217.50.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31EE14BB8 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) Received: from originative.co.uk (gate.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.230]) by mail.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969E01D12B; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <38920B03.EDF2C2EA@originative.co.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:32:51 +0000 From: Paul =?iso-8859-1?Q?RichardsS=FD?= Organization: Originative Solutions Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Russell Cc: Eric Jacoboni , jmutter@ds.net, Tom Messmer , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staroffice port References: <200001281559.QAA73203@gazelle.bigmama.xx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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