for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Vaclav Kadlcik
Hi, since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs fine for me. I downloaded Linux' x86 tar package, did tar xf to get RPMs and finally: for i in

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs fine for me. I downloaded Linux' x86 tar package, did tar xf to get RPMs and finally: for i in *rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -ivd; done That created

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs [...] May this help someone lazy or impatient like me... what's wrong

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Vaclav Kadlcik kro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs fine for me. I

for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Robert Huff
Vaclav Kadlcik writes: since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs fine for me. Excellent work. Two questions: 1)

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what's wrong in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-3 Oracle oracle donated everything to apache foundation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what's wrong in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-3 Oracle oracle donated everything to apache foundation. Yes, but not before creating a big mess, stagnating development and forcing the core team out of

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/19/12 09:41, Vaclav Kadlcik wrote: Hi, since there has been various issues building LibreOffice from ports lately and not everyone can or wants follow all the patches flying around, I'd like to share that the Linux binary build runs fine for me. I downloaded Linux' x86 tar package, did

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Robert Huff
Alexander Kapshuk writes: Just upgraded libreoffice to version 3.5.5 using ports. Didn't have any trouble installing is, nor upgrading it. deletia What sort of errors did you encounter while building the package using the ports? Check the last few weeks of office@

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 07/19/12 15:46, Robert Huff wrote: Check the last few weeks of office@ and ports@; there are multiple people (including me) reporting problems, especially with 9.recent and -Current. Robert Huff Could be because I'm running the RELEASE version then.

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Alejandro == Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org writes: Alejandro Yes, but not before creating a big mess, stagnating Alejandro development and forcing the core team out of Oracle to create Alejandro LO and I guess [pure speculation] that in the end it Alejandro backfired and Larry (aka we'll simply

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread John Levine
What sort of errors did you encounter while building the package using the ports? The first problem is that it now demands clang-devel, which conflicts with chromium which still wants regular clang. Any idea how likely it is that chromium will build if I tell it to use clang-devel? R's, John

Re: for the impatient: Linux LibreOffice works on FreeBSD

2012-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The only good thing they seem *not* to have screwed with is VirtualBox. not really. The backend part of virtualbox is great. The frontend with is UUIDS for everything, XML and other trash is plain terrible. But still - nothing better exist for the need now.