Problem with openoffice 2.3.1 on freebsd...

Jeff Colter jeff.colter at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 20:59:05 PST 2008


What do you mean it won't be 'integrated' ?

OO is unusable in FreeBSD.

Roughly when can I expect to see a revision that works?

If not soon, how far back in the revisions do I have to go to get a version
that works?

Tnx, Jeff

On Jan 3, 2008 3:23 PM, Maho NAKATA <chat95 at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Problem with openoffice 2.3.1 on freebsd...
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:54:38 +1100
>
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:54:15AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > >On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:08:38AM -0500, Kris Moore wrote:
> > >>I noticed that a patch was made to fix it:
> > >>
> > >>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2007-December/003464.html
> > >
> > >I've tried this patch and it had no effect - OOo still reports the same
> > >glib initialisation errors and hangs.
> >
> > I tried to short-cut the OOo build and whilst systemshell.cxx was
> > recompiled and libsysshell.a re-created, it seems that libsfx680fi.so
> > was not (I'd verified the former but not the latter).  Apologies for
> > misleading the group.
> >
> > In any case, I created a slightly extended version of the patch (which
> > removes all the offending code), did a full re-compile and it now works.
>
> Huge thanks for your great small patch.
> However, although this is an issue but IMHO this won't be integrated.
> I'll commit it soon.
>
> All the best,
> -- Nakata Maho (maho at FreeBSD.org)
>
>


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