OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 and FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

[Tim Kellers]

I've been able to successfully build (and use) OpenOffice on 4.7-STABLE, 
4.8-STABLE, and 5.1 BETA since 1.0.2 --I'm currently using 1.0.3.  Before 
that, I had no success in building 1.0.0 or 1.0.1, (I didn't try building 
those versions on CURRENT)but I did have immediate success using the Linux 
version under emulation.

I have had trouble (read that no success) getting any version to print using 
kprint and CUPS (and I've tried the configuration the kde folks suggest), but 
I can print using good old lpd/lpr, so I'm happy enough with that.

Because the time to build is so long, since version 1.0.3, I've been able to 
pkg_create -b openoffice on my fastest, roomiest machine, and pkg_add 
openoffice over an NFS mount, to new workstations.

I don't know if the hardware manufacturer is significant, but all the machines 
I've either built it on or pkg_add'd it to are/were Dell Optiplex PIII and P4 
workstations and Poweredge PIII servers (both single and dual processors).

One "undocumented" observation about the build/install process I can make:  it 
seems to me that I started having success building OpenOffice when I 
installed FreeBSD on new computers, and built OpenOffice before I filled it 
up with a zillion other ports.

Just my .02

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
On Saturday 31 May 2003 01:05 pm, David Gerard wrote:
> Mark Rowlands (mark.rowlands at 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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