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Just noticed that the OpenOffice 1.0 port doesn't seem broken anymore...
however, when I go to make, it complains that OS ver 4.5 is too low and
I should upgrade to 4.6. ;)

Do I really need to wait until June 1 and an OS upgrade to get OO going,
or is there a way to pacify the needs of the OO build to work on 4.5?

Quote:> Just noticed that the OpenOffice 1.0 port doesn't seem broken anymore...
> however, when I go to make, it complains that OS ver 4.5 is too low and
> I should upgrade to 4.6. ;)

> Do I really need to wait until June 1 and an OS upgrade to get OO going,
> or is there a way to pacify the needs of the OO build to work on 4.5?

From the Makefile:

.if ${OSVERSION} < 450005







.endif

What part of "Openoffice need some important libc_r and
gcc fixes to build" is too difficult to understand?

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Steve
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/

Quote:> What part of "Openoffice need some important libc_r and
> gcc fixes to build" is too difficult to understand?

Perhaps you did not intend it that way, but I must say that your reply
comes off incredibly rude.  If I'm mistaken, please excuse me... but
please remember that what is painfully obvious to you might not
necessarily be so to someone who does not have the experience you have.  
I do not live and breathe FreeBSD... I am stuck in a Windows-centric
world but experiment w/ FreeBSD in hopes to learn enough to switch
myself and others over.  I do try on my own, and this has given me a
"play" system running FreeBSD 4.5, Xfree86, gnome, englightenment, gimp,
mozilla, and numerous other apps with virtually no questions asked of
others in the community this latest round (I've built other systems to
experiment with in the past).

Anyhow... I certainly did see that message when I tried to run make.  
But what was not clear was whether it was possible to upgrade libc_r and
gcc to make it happy, as it seemed to be checking against OS version and
not the versions of libc_r and gcc.  It also did not say what versions
of these were necessary.

I am sorry if I did not elaborate enough.

I don't understand how you have to wait until June 1 at all? I upgraded
my system to 4.6 yesterday and Open office is building right now.  This
is just a guess but, won't you upgrade to 4.6 eventually?

Quote:> Anyhow... I certainly did see that message when I tried to run make.
> But what was not clear was whether it was possible to upgrade libc_r and
> gcc to make it happy, as it seemed to be checking against OS version and
> not the versions of libc_r and gcc.  It also did not say what versions
> of these were necessary.

Scott,

FreeBSD tends to work as a cohesive whole, where userland (i.e. libc, libc_r,
gcc and all that) is assumed to be kept relatively synchronised with the
kernel.  The ports system, in particular, depends on this synchronisation,
because there are many programs out there which depend on particular features
only available from certain releases of FreeBSD.  One of these is OpenOffice.

If you want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.6-RC2, you have two options:  there is an
install CD available which you can use to do a binary upgrade, or you can
upgrade from the source code.  Normally, the former is easier for beginners.

There is a CD ISO image for a beta of 4.6 available on:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6-RC2/

Mirrored at:

http://shell1.sentex.ca/4.6-RC2-install.iso

You can also do a source upgrade using cvsup, followed by "make world", details
of which are given on:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html

Alternatively, you could wait until FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE is actually released
(probably June 1), and then upgrade FreeBSD and install the native copy of
OpenOffice.

Nick

Quote:>> What part of "Openoffice need some important libc_r and
>> gcc fixes to build" is too difficult to understand?

> Perhaps you did not intend it that way, but I must say that your reply
> comes off incredibly rude.  If I'm mistaken, please excuse me... but

How about upgrading to -STABLE

On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:06:08 -0400

Quote:> Just noticed that the OpenOffice 1.0 port doesn't seem broken
> anymore... however, when I go to make, it complains that OS ver 4.5 is
> too low and I should upgrade to 4.6. ;)
> Do I really need to wait until June 1 and an OS upgrade to get OO
> going, or is there a way to pacify the needs of the OO build to work
> on 4.5?

No, you dont have to wait until June 1.
Use cvsup and make world to upgrade your system to 4.6-RC. It is not a
big deal. Take a look at the handbook.

asg

Someone said it needs 6GB to build.
(haven't tried myself)

So be prepared for a long, long build...

cheers,
Rainer

# cd ${PORTSDIR}/editors/openoffice && cat Makefile
<snip>





<snip>

BTW: It is marked broken again, since Wed May 22 08:36:16 2002 UTC due
     to problems with the c++ compiler.

Ports freeze for 4.6-R is Friday at 8pm PST, so I think 4.6-R comes
without a working OpenOffice.

Regards,
         Olli
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Quote:> I don't understand how you have to wait until June 1 at all? I upgraded
> my system to 4.6 yesterday and Open office is building right now.  This
> is just a guess but, won't you upgrade to 4.6 eventually?

FWIW, I have a several-weeks old 4.6-PRE. Just installed linux_base-7 and
the Linux Open Office binary package. Seems to work fine.

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