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Native OpenOffice for FreeBSD 47

Posted by timothy from the tapping-out-memos dept.
Klaus writes: "As the commit list on Freshports shows, OpenOffice 1.0.0 finally works on FreeBSD! After weeks of hard work, the team managed not only to compile the monster but to make it really run as well. Check it out, but it will take a long time to build... See the commit log here."
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  • Great News! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by questionlp ( 58365 )
    I personally think this is great news for those who are running FreeBSD on desktops or workstations for development as well as some Office use. Sure, there is KOffice, Abi Word, Gnumeric and a plethora of other office tools (individual programs or as a suite), but OpenOffice.org 1.0 does a nice job of combining the pieces together.

    I've been running Star Office 5.2 (through the Linux compatibility layer) for several months now... it definitely has been very handy to recover data from corrupted Excel and Word documents... as well as to view spreadsheets from people that I'm not so sure about (since OO and SO do not support VB macros, I don't have to worry about worms and the such).

    I'm currently downloading and will be building OO with GCC 3.2... hopefully all will go well. Thanks definitely go to the guys helping out with getting the port from entirely broken status to work in -STABLE!
  • I'm going to compile with right now. I've been looking at this in the ports tree for a while and wondering what was happening with it.

    # make install clean

    Yay!

    • Re:Going right now (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Metrol ( 147060 )
      Hope ya got a fat pipe. The source file on that thing is BIG! Something like 116 Meg. Thought I was on the way to getting this thing built, only to find out I had to manually download the latest Java SDK from Sun. Had to agree to something nasty on their site, as well as give them enough information to physically drown 3 humans in marketing brochures.

      If you haven't already, go get that Java port taken care of before starting up the build on OpenOffice. Hopefully that'll help out those build it over night kinda folks.

      According to the port message, have 6G available to run this build. I'm predicting a 6-7 hour build time, but I guess we'll see. On your mark, get set, who needs spell check anyways?
      • Hope ya got a fat pipe. The source file on that thing is BIG! Something like 116 Meg

        Yeah, 1Mb cable modem :-)

        Downloading the stuff from Sun is a real pain. Remind me to never ever buy stuff from Sun. Their website has to be the most anti-customer/user in the world. IBM's is so much better.

        Got to:
        In file included from
        ../../../src/solaris/native/sun/awt/awt_AWTEvent .c : 8: ../../../src/solaris/native/sun/awt/awt_p.h:289 :
        syntax error before int' in declaration of
        /usr/ports/java/jdk13/work/j2sdk1.3.1/make/sun/a wt '
        gmake[2]: *** [optimized] Error 2
        gmake[2]: Leaving directory
        /usr/ports/java/jdk13/work/j2sdk1.3.1/make/sun'
        gmake: *** [all] Error 1
        *** Error code 2
        Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk13.
        *** Error code 1
        Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
        #

        :-(

        • I got up to the point where the OpenOffice build was supposed to begin. There it just stops. No errors, or any of the usual kind of things if a port doesn't play. Suppose I need to get a post up on the ports mailing list.

          Also, keep an eye out for a couple of kernel config options the port gets to asking for. I kept missing this as it was scrolling off the screen after I left the room.

          # Some tweaks to get OpenOffice to build
          options MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)"
          options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"

          I'm not having much luck with this bugger so far, and most likely won't try again until much later into the evening tonight. Anyone else getting a proper build to happen?
          • If you follow the ports commits, you will see changes to openoffice almost ever hour. I did a make clean (on openoffice) and cvsupped ports and the build got all the way to to it telling me me to add

            options MAXDSIZ="(1024*1024*1024)"
            options MAXSSIZ="(256*1024*1024)"

            onto the end of my kernel config - so the java stuff all worked this time. Now I'm just waiting for the kernel and then hopefully it should be straight through (probably until morning :-))

            So far this is going better than Gnome. Now that was painful...

  • Yay (Score:2)

    by thanjee ( 263266 )
    OpenOffice 1.0!!

    I look forward to compiling this on my machine.

    It will give me another chance to procrastinate writing my currently due essays just that bit longer. Then I will be able to write them natively on FreeBSD. Unless I can find some other way to procrastinate....hmmm Is there a newer verion of XFree86 out that I could comile onto my BSD box? lol
    • Trust me, compiling OpenOffice will take an order of magnitude longer than X.

      For fun, make world (both BSD, and X), gnome 2 and OpenOffice. See if you can do it all in a day.
      • I've not compiled GNOME2, but I can tell you that compiling KDE2 takes a looong time on a P200MMX. We're talking days. :)
  • Will this also be released as a package for the guys with slow and expensive internet?

    If so, how long does it usually take from the port release to the packet release?

    • You could just use the linux binaries. That's what I do (well, I actually use it only 3 or 4 times a year when someone sends me a word document, but that's another matter.) The linux may work better than the native version: Openoffice probably works better on linux, and linux emulation is very good indeed on FreeBSD (and not only for running software: I've actually rebuilt the major part of a gentoo system on freebsd, chroot-ed into a linux partition).

  • Perfect timing! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Thornae ( 53316 ) on Wednesday June 05, 2002 @01:10AM (#3643436)
    My mate with DSL has just finished grabbing the Open Office sources for me - he had to use up his bandwidth allowance because he was moving, so asked me if there was anything I wanted. Silly question... (=

    Anyway, huge accolades to all the porters - I've been watching that little "broken" icon on freshports wistfully for many a month now. (And, finally, I can let my gf use my computer! KDE3 and OO, what more does a Mac user need?)

    (Possibly posting anony-mouse because /. doesn't seem to like me reading the BSD section logged in...)
  • Whoa, this has to be the worst piece of ugly bloatware I've ever seen. It needs what, 6GB diskspace to build? The porters recommend to rebuild your kernel and increase the maximum space a process may waste so it will run? Heck, you need X to build it?

    While it's amazing that the porters got this monster running (esp. since Sun's idea of cross-platform boils down to "runs on every platform as long as it's Windows, Solaris or Linux"), it's a pity that openoffice.org didn't act like the other project dealing with a generous donation of "commercial quality" code to the OS world (Mozilla): Throw that junk away, learn how not to do it, and build real software.

    • Re:Bloatware (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      And it only works with the newest FreeBSD versions???

      bash-2.05# make install clean

      You can compile openoffice with different
      gcc compiler versions:

      Use: USEPORTGCC295=YES, USEPORTGCC31=YES and
      USEPORTGCC32=YES to compile openoffice with your
      prefered compiler.

      OS-VERSION 450001 too low

      Openoffice need some important libc_r and
      gcc fixes to build. Please upgrade to 4.6
      PRE-RELEASE or RELEASE.
      *** Error code 1

      Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.
    • And Mozilla isn't bloated? Keep in mind that OpenOffice is an entire office suite, which has, moreover, received very favourable reviews in comparison with MS Office, while being much less bloated than the latter (comparing the binaries, I mean).

      Don't get me wrong, I like Mozilla, but bloated it is.

  • The FreeBSD team has really been outdoing itself lately.
  • I think it is fair to say that the majority of users would not want to spend 26hrs and 6GB disk space to compile OpenOffice....

    Binary packages to download are a must for something like this... so that anyone who wants it can do a "pkg_add -r OpenOffice".

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