Re: openoffice

Erik Zeek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday 02 June 2005 07:14 am, Peter Kiraly wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> This time I try this forum. ;)
> So more user can learn from my mistakes...
>
> My problem:
>
> 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).
> 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?
>
> Oh, by the way. My hw is a PegasosII with G4...

Do you have kernel preemption enabled?  I had problems like that when I did.  
Kernel preemption is broken on PPC.

You can also restart the ebuild with the "ebuild" command, so you don't loose 
any work that has been done.  ("ebuild <path to ebuild> merge")

Good luck,
Erik

>
> --
> Best regards - Udvozlettel:
>
> Peter Kiraly
> ¤-----------------------------¤
>  PegasosII-G4@1GHz
>  Gentoo Linux PPC
> ¤-----------------------------¤

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