On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:04:24 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:17:13AM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > Dave Horsfall wrote: > > >On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > > > > > > >>direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.4/index.html > > > > > > > > >And if you follow the ports route instead, just how many more bloody hoops > > >do we have to jump through? > > > > I did it, and it wasn't hard, just confusing. It is confusing because > > you need to know that: > > > > 1. You need the linprocfs mounted to make java/linux-sun-jdk14 > > 2. You need to install java/jdk14 before you try to build OpenOffice > > (even though this is not listed as a dependency). > > > > Note: this is from my memory, which is not always 100% what it should be. > > Installing native jdk14 isn't that hard, as long as you follow the > instructions to the letter. > > I've tried to compile openoffice from scratch using the port (it worked > before), but this time it bombed near the end with a program 'lzip' > dumping core because it was fed a wrong package list (?). I tried to > track the problem down, but it was too deeply hidden within the OO > build process, so I finally gave up and fetched the binary package which > works perfectly. This was 2 weeks ago; perhaps OO compiles perfectly now?
It does; at least, it did on Sunday afternoon ;) -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
