openoffice & current

[Kenneth Culver]

Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Matteo Riondato wrote:
>
>> I have some troubles using en-openoffice-1.1.0_1 taken from
>> http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/. When I launch it, it starts but
>> after a few (~20) seconds it begins to use 100% of the CPU and I have to
>> kill -9 it. On the terminal where I launched it from appears: 
>> soffice.bin in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
>
> I have an identical problem.  The weird thing is that it appears to be a
> property of the initial install -- I only see this on a new install at
> work.  On my notebook that I upgraded incrementally and had Open Office
> installed on previously, it works fine.
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research

Openoffice 1.1.0 works fine if you build it from ports. I have it 
working on my
2 FreeBSD-CURRENT desktops without any problem. It just takes forever 
to build.
:-P

Ken