From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 10:05:27 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 3976737B401 for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thingy.apana.org.au (thingy.apana.org.au [203.12.237.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615CB43F3F for ; Sat, 31 May 2003 10:05:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au) Received: from fun by thingy.apana.org.au with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19M9nE-0002SH-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:05:20 +1000 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 03:05:20 +1000 From: David Gerard To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030531170520.GO16799@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20030531150033.GM16799@thingy.apana.org.au> <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org> <200305311848.24356.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305311848.24356.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 17:05:27 -0000 Mark Rowlands (mark.rowlands@minmail.net) [030601 02:49]: > 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/ Yes, but does it actually work reliably? I would have expected the official port to achieve basic function, but it observably doesn't. Hence asking. - d.