Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?
Daniel Kalchev
daniel at digsys.bg
Thu Feb 21 12:20:03 UTC 2013
On 21.02.13 04:23, Greg Miller wrote:
> On 2/20/13, Matthias Andree<matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
>> What is your point, besides getting software from the museum to build
>> stuff from the relative future?
> I can't speak for the OP, but I tried it because clang, gcc46, and
> gcc47 wouldn't produce a working executable at all for a long time
> (and continue to fail) on my 9.0 and 9.1 systems. There's been so much
> libreoffice breakage that I don't even bother reporting it or making
> much effort to fix it. I just reboot to Windows for the cases where I
> need a working libreoffice. I don't much care whether gcc 4.2 produces
> a working libreoffice; I just wish something did.
Did you build the Windows version yourself from source?
If not, why you just don't get the binary WhateverOffice for FreeBSD and
be done with this "problem"? That will surely save you the reboots. At
least.
Daniel
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