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/

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