On Nov 22, 2007 6:45 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007/11/22 18:20, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > Is building from ports the only way to install OpenOffice on 4.2-current? > > I am unable to find OpenOffice package in the snapshots directory, so > > this seems to be the only way as of now. > > There's one in the latest i386 package snap (Nov 18), other arch > should follow gradually. > > > Oh, and the build broke last night because I ran out of space. OOo does > > need gigs of space to build (4G free in /usr, I read somewhere). > > Yeah, loads of space. I powered down my i386 build box due to > electrical storms the other day and haven't put it back up yet so > I can't check just what it needs.
OpenOffice 2.3.0 was built successfully on my laptop, after approximate 9 hrs. on my ThinkPad X60 (2G RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo processor). I built a no_lang version. 9 hrs. was the build time needed only by OpenOffice, haven't counted the other dependencies like jvm and all. > In mk.conf you can set WRKOBJDIR_editors/openoffice=/usr/obj/ports > (or choose somewhere else you have plenty of space). (I actually just > have WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/ports for everything, it's easier to clean). Thanks for an excellent tip. This solves most of my issues, as I have lot of space in /home. In order to build openoffice, I had to relocate my /usr/src, /usr/ports/packages, /usr/ports/distfiles, and w-openoffice-2.3.0 directory under /home. WRKOBJDIR now makes all this redundant. -Amarendra
