looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

Am Donnerstag, den 05.08.2010, 01:21 -0500 schrieb Scott Bennett:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:59:52 -0400 Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>
> wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:00:00AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
> >
> >>      I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently
> >> in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of them fail to build to
> >> completion.  Is there somewhere that I can find one that actually works?
> >> Or at least some alternative package that will build and work on a FreeBSD
> >> 7.3-STABLE system?  No packages appear to be available for these ports.
> >> (Transcripts of the failed builds are available on request.)
> >>      And what would be available if I were to upgrade my system to 8.1-STABLE?
> >>      Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> >You didn't give any information on what the failures were.
> >
>      True enough.  That's because I wasn't really looking for help in fixing
> the broken ports, but rather for an OOo port that is *not* broken.
Did you try an OpenOffice.org binary for 7.0 or 7.1?
http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#obtain
pkg_add will probably throw some warnings, but generally things should
work.
 
Greetings

Peter