On Sunday 24 Jul 2011 22:11:47 walt wrote: > On 07/24/2011 01:27 PM, Mick wrote: > > It must be one of the most annoying things in Gentoo when OOo fails at > > the very last minute! > > > > It may be this was caused by me forgetting to set MAKEOPTS="-j1" > > If that's the cause (and I have no idea) then you should be able to > complete the build this way, without starting over: > > #ebuild /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-3.2.1-r1.ebuild > install > > That will resume the failed build where it stopped last time and, with any > luck, will finish it.
Hmm ... probably will not work if I have "fail-clean" in my FEATURES. :-( I've run it now and it compiles again. > If the build stops again at a *different* spot, then repeat as needed. > > If it finally finishes without error, then there is one more step > remaining: > > #ebuild /usr/portage/app-office/openoffice/openoffice-3.2.1-r1.ebuild > qmerge > > > Before I start again, shall I switch to libreoffice-3.3.1 or is it not > > yet as polished as OOo? > > I'm using it without problems so far. Some of the principal devs quit the > OO project to start libreoffice. My gut feeling is that libreoffice will > capture the market, but I have no real evidence to offer either way. Thanks, from what I read online libreoffice is expected to be taking over openoffice sooner or later, I'm just not sure when to make the switch. -- Regards, Mick
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