I've been able to successfully build (and use) OpenOffice on 4.7-STABLE, 4.8-STABLE, and 5.1 BETA since 1.0.2 --I'm currently using 1.0.3. Before that, I had no success in building 1.0.0 or 1.0.1, (I didn't try building those versions on CURRENT)but I did have immediate success using the Linux version under emulation.
I have had trouble (read that no success) getting any version to print using kprint and CUPS (and I've tried the configuration the kde folks suggest), but I can print using good old lpd/lpr, so I'm happy enough with that. Because the time to build is so long, since version 1.0.3, I've been able to pkg_create -b openoffice on my fastest, roomiest machine, and pkg_add openoffice over an NFS mount, to new workstations. I don't know if the hardware manufacturer is significant, but all the machines I've either built it on or pkg_add'd it to are/were Dell Optiplex PIII and P4 workstations and Poweredge PIII servers (both single and dual processors). One "undocumented" observation about the build/install process I can make: it seems to me that I started having success building OpenOffice when I installed FreeBSD on new computers, and built OpenOffice before I filled it up with a zillion other ports. Just my .02 Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Saturday 31 May 2003 01:05 pm, David Gerard wrote: > Mark Rowlands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030601 02:49]: > > On Saturday 31 May 2003 5:18 pm, Doug Poland wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:00:33AM +1000, David Gerard wrote: > > > > OK. I know that after much fiddling with OOo 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 4.6.2, > > > > it came out that OOo basically just, er, didn't work on FreeBSD at > > > > that time. > > > > So. On the other box (FreeBSD 4.8), we've just installed OOo 1.0.2 > > > > from ports. A few days' compilation from source. It, er, sort of > > > > works. It starts up, but crashes when you try to save anything (dies > > > > with an internal error). > > > > The README claims it works with FreeBSD 4.5 and up, but I'll believe > > > > that when I see it doing so. > > > > What are others' experiences so far? Is there some undocumented hoop > > > > one must jump through to get it to behave itself? > > > > > > I had been using linux binaries with success. I've been trying to > > > build native 1.0.3 but the build keeps failing. I've never been able > > > to compile any version of OO.org from source. > > > > why not use the freebsd package ? :- > > http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ > > Yes, but does it actually work reliably? I would have expected the official > port to achieve basic function, but it observably doesn't. Hence asking. > > > - d. > > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
