6.0-RELEASE as an office desktop?

[Angelo Turetta]

James B. Van Bokkelen wrote:

> Finally, it appears that no Open Office package is available for
> 6.0-RELEASE (1.0.3_6 wants much older ORBit and glib).  I started to
> build OO from ports, but the makefile warned me it needed 9GB free,
> which would require another cycle of re-installation to obtain.

If you have free space in another file system than /usr/ports, you can 
always define WRKDIRPREFIX=/free/space/path either in /etc/make.conf or 
directly from the command line.

eg:

cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2.0
make WRKDIRPREFIX=/free/space/path package clean

or, if you use portupgrade,

portupgrade -p -m WRKDIRPREFIX=/free/space/path \
       -N editors/openoffice.org-2.0

This workaround can (and should) also be used whenever your /usr/port 
directory is either read-only, or nfs-mounted

Hope this helps.
Angelo Turetta