Anyone have /usr/ports/java/jdk14 working on 4.8?

[Charles Howse]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:53 am, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:47, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:25:46AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote:
> > > You don't by any chance have OpenOffice-1.1 working do you?
> > > That's where I'm going with this, but I have to get jdk working first.
> > > attempting to install jdk takes 6+ hrs on my machine.  :-)
> >
> > I just got both working less than a week back. I first fetched the
> > packages for jdk14 so that all is ready for compilation. Just make sure
> > you have plenty of swap too (I needed atleast 128M). If that's your
> > problem, you could add some space in a swap file for now and then delete
> > it later (see the handbook). The error message is mostly visible in ttyv0
> > (apart from the errors on the screen)
> >
> > # cd /usr/ports/java/jdk14
> > # make fetch-recursive
> > # make install clean
> > # (go to sleep...)
>
> Me too. Worked ok on fresh 4.9 install.
>
> > openoffice-1.1 takes about 15 hrs on my celeron 1.7Ghz with 256 MB ram.
>
> About 20 hrs on IBM Thinkpad 700 celeron.
>
> Steve
>
> > Hope that was of some use...
> > Gautam

That's much help, thanks!
OK, next question...
Assuming I get OO installed, what versions of MS Office files will it open?
I have need to open MS Office *XP* files. (cross fingers)

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Thanks,
Charles
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