Openoffice compilation failure

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Subhro wrote:
> On 6/2/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> 
>> Subhro <subhro.kar at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On 6/1/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> 
>> wrote:
>> >> Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer at netfence.it> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > I reported it several months ago and all I got to be told was that
>> >> > it's a strange problem.
>> >>
>> >> Well, that's true...
>> >>
>> >> Do you have devel/epm installed by any chance?
>> >
>> > No I do not have epm installed. Should I install it and try again?
>>
>> No.  If you had it, I would recommend removing it before trying again.
>>
> 
> Initially did not have epm. Even tried to compile *with* epm
> installed. Still stuck up at the same place. :-(
> 
> Subhro

I saw an email that suggested that the problem is that the epm that 
comes bundled with the openoffice source has a problem with argument 
lines that are too long.

Changing the name of the ports directory to /usr/p fixed it for me.

Stephen