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?
Like another poster mentioned, I can't say I've ever had much luck attempting to compile OO from source. After several attempts beginning with OO 1.0, I began downloading the binary package from the OpenOffice FreeBSD Project at http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ . OO is still a little quirky in FBSD....I've seen it completely crash XWindows when attempting to open docs in Writer, whether in .doc or its own .swx format, or crash just OO itself. The latest available build, openoffice-1.0.3_2 (built on 4.8-RELEASE with FBSD GCC 3.2.1) is what I feel is the most stable build so far....it's behaving a lot better and I work with it regularly. Kudos to the FBSD OpenOffice team....it's a massive project, but needs support for such a key desktop app. BTW, one of the coolest features, available since 1.0.2 I believe, is the setup of the built-in PDF Converter, basically setting up a pipe to ghostscript in the openoffice-spadmin utility.....it rocks....opened a 41-page MS Word doc in OO, printed to PDF Converter, got a nice .pdf doc in about 2 seconds! This in itself is worth having OO installed.
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