openoffice-1.1 question...

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:12:27AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:03:07AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:20:34PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > 	Folks, 
> > > 
> > > 	On another server I'm trying to build openoffice-1.1.
> > > 	Finally got the Java stuff to build; now I ran into
> > > 	this:
> > > 
> > > ===>  Configuring for openoffice-1.1.0_3
> > > FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
> > > *** Error code 2
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	I *did* have an older autoconf installed with v 2.5.7; then
> > > 	removed the older version, and reinstalled autoconf-2.57.  
> > > 
> > > 	So what gives?  I could install the package; but would like
> > > 	to build OOo, too.  Anybody??
> > 
> > I take it you cvsuped? In the case that you do: I to have had problems
> > with builing OOo. Then you could cvsup back in time to get one that does
> > compile. You could also download the OOo port that came with FreeBSD
> > 5.2-RELEASE. I think I compiled that one.
> > 
> 
> 
> 	well, it's still building... after that autoconf trick.
> 	but i may not have enough room since there's only 2.6GB
> 	of space left is /usr.  i'll play games if i have to, 
> 	tho.
> 
> 	don't i need 3 to 4GB?

You may need less if you compile java before you compile oo. Compiling
oo wil take at least 8h.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/