Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:33:13 -0600 (CST) From: Gordon Burditt <gordon@hammy.burditt.org> To: openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: How does one use OpenOffice on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <E1LIX2P-0006Yq-2c@hammy.burditt.org>
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Help, please. I had Openoffice working on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE from a port based on the DEV300_m1 version. Then I upgraded to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. (Intel i386 architecture). I can't get OpenOffice (any version) working since then. As part of the upgrade, I recompiled all the ports since without this, many of the ports and my own executables link in two different versions of libc.so and segfault a lot. Relinking fixes this. The original binaries from the DEV300_m1 don't work (largely because of the libc.so problem) and segfault. Rebuilding that doesn't work, possibly because I had to go from jdk1.4 to something later. Packages for OOo 2.4.1 and 3.0.0 from good-day.net do not work. Installation of the package works. Attempting to start OpenOffice fails because "the component manager is not available". Then it segfaults. What package am I missing? I attempted to bypass the vendor-checking in javaldx with a javaldx from a failed build (but it got far enough to build javaldx). No change. I have used at various times: diablo-jdk1.5, diablo-jdk1.6, diablo-jdk1.5 AND diablo-jdk1.6, diablo-jdk1.5 AND jdk1.5, diablo-jdk1.6 AND jdk1.6. The advice I've seen seems to be using diablo-jdk1.5 and jdk1.5 . Is this correct? Builds for all of the ports of OpenOffice 2.4.* and 3.0.* that I can find in the ports tree fail. The failure is in the pyuno directory with a complaint about python.bin being missing, without any apparent error causing it to fail to build. I have pulled a python executable out of one of the ports and tried "make do-build" again. Then it goes a lot farther but fails on not being able to register stuff in services.rdb. Obviously, I'm missing something. What are the version requirements on other ports? I'm using diablo-jdk1.5 and jdk1.5. I ripped out icu 3.8 and re-installed icu 3.6 (which means gimp won't build). I suspect that there are plenty of other version requirements I don't know about. I'll install any jdk necessary. I'll upgrade to 7.1-PRERELEASE if necessary. I only really need Writer, Calc, and the ability to print documents. I've tried with and without WITHOUT_MOZILLA, WITHOUT_GNOMEVFS, and WITHOUT_CUPS. No change. I'm very familiar with installing ports and packages. Openoffice has presented problems worse than any I've seen with anything else. Are there instructions including prerequesites on the web somewhere?
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