Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 03:05:20 +1000 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Message-ID: <20030531170520.GO16799@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <200305311848.24356.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> References: <20030531150033.GM16799@thingy.apana.org.au> <20030531151814.GA28768@polands.org> <200305311848.24356.mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
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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.
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