On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Wed, January 20, 2010 5:14 pm, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > I tried building openoffice2 and it said it's not available on DragonFly. > > FreeBSD and NetBSD, yes, but not DFly. How come? And openoffice3 gave > > me "Could not find ../../devel/xulrunner/buildlink3.mk" and quit. > > Openoffice2 probably just never was tested on DragonFly; looking at the > Makefile, it's pretty specific about supported versions. > > Openoffice3 also fails with a "openoffice3-3.1.1nb1 is not available for > DragonFly-2.4.1-i386" error on the last 2.4.1 i386 bulk build, so I bet > it's a similar issue there. It may just be a matter of someone familiar > with the build process needing to poke at it.
The build process is a mess. It would need a considerable time investment to be rendered usable. If you want to use OpenOffice on DragonFly, your best bet is the linux binary in misc/openoffice3-bin. And then it manages to crash if you use a hammer filesystem... There are some workarounds in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/users@crater.dragonflybsd.org/msg08862.html Nowadays, I use koffice. It's native and fast. -- Francois Tigeot
