Re: openoffice

Hello Peter,

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:14 +0200, Peter Kiraly wrote:
[snip]
> I have tried to emerge openoffice (1.1.4-r1), but somehow it did not
> work. I tried three times: first, after four hours of compiling had a
> failure, the second try locked the whole computer, the third try failed
> after about 20 minutes (somewhere around berkleydb, had a segmentation
> problem).

Did the compiler segfault? If it did then it sounds more like a
toolchain/kernel problem than an openoffice problem.

> At the beginning the compiling process has a notification about that
> it's not an easy task, and openoffice is vulnerable for some chflags
> settings. (Beside it's a huge package).
> Is there a special way to emerge openoffice, or shall i just go with the
> -bin package?

You shouldn't have to do anything special, but openoffice is a bit of a
bitch to compile (mostly due to the amount of time it takes though). The
openoffice-bin package is a bit old on ppc, it's based on an RPM. You
can (usually) grab a binary package of openoffice (built on Gentoo) from
my dev page, http://dev.gentoo.org/~dholm/ppc.html


Did you solve your DMA issues?

//David Holm

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