Try this: LANGUAGE=33 emerge -U openoffice
Where the number stands for country code, France in this case. Worked fine for me to build a french version, did the same for dutch, code 31. For English no language setting should be needed indeed. Good luck! On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:00, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 18. November 2003 01:11 schrieb Zhang, Peng: > > Hi Michael, > > > > I had try this before. I got the same error. > > > > pzhang root # LANGUAGE=ENUS emerge openoffice > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 to / > > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) OOo_1.1.0_source.tar.bz2 > > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) gpc231.tar.Z > > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) freetype-2.1.4.tar.bz2 > > > > * **************************************************************** > > * It is important to note that OpenOffice.org is a very fragile > > * build when it comes to CFLAGS. A number of flags have already > > * been filtered out. If you experience difficulty merging this > > * package and use agressive CFLAGS, lower the CFLAGS and try to > > * merge again. > > * **************************************************************** > > * Unknown LANGUAGE setting! > > * > > * Known LANGUAGE settings are: > > * ENUS | PORT | RUSS | GREEK | DTCH | FREN | SPAN | FINN | CAT | ITAL > > > > * CZECH | SLOVAK | DAN | SWED | POL | GER | PORTBR | THAI | ESTONIAN > > > > * JAPN | KOREAN | CHINSIM | CHINTRAD | TURK | HINDI | ARAB | HEBREW > > > > !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r2 failed. > > !!! Function set_languages, Line 213, Exitcode 0 > > !!! (no error message) > > > > you probably should use one of the values the ebuild suggests, or none, > > > if you want english (default). The variable's name is LANGUAGE, eg: > > > LANGUAGE=RUSS emerge openoffice > > > for russian. > > > > > > HTH, > > > Michael > > sorry, I can't help you further then :-( I have two machines running OO1.1.0, > one German, one english. The german install failed in earlier releases of > OO1.1.0 due to an error telling something like "Nothing to unpack for this > LANGUAGE", but works with 1.1.0-r2 now. English was always ok (no LANGUAGE > setting). > > Michael > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Karl Huysmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
