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Native OpenOffice for FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on 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."

47 comments

  1. Great News! by questionlp · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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!

  2. Re:HERE'S A REAL OFFICE SUITE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Will this Windows you speak of run on my Sparc? No? Then fuck off troll.

  3. Going right now by palfreman · · Score: 1
    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!

    1. Re:Going right now by Metrol · · Score: 3, Interesting

      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?

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      The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
    2. Re:Going right now by palfreman · · Score: 2, Funny
      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.
      #

      :-(

    3. Re:Going right now by Metrol · · Score: 2

      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?

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      The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
    4. Re:Going right now by palfreman · · Score: 1
      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...

    5. Re:Going right now by Patrick+Dung · · Score: 0

      I've tried compling oo, but get a core dump in idlc arrayoutofboundexception...

    6. Re:Going right now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You've probably got dodgy hardware. Try turning things off (like CPU caches) and try again...

  4. Re:My experiences with Windows XP Professional by rikkus-x · · Score: 4, Funny

    > I am a Computer Information Systems
    > Professional [devry.edu] at a major Fortune
    > 500 corporation.
    > [...]
    > We had previously been running OpenBSD on
    > all our quad processor Xeons.

    Considering you're such an elite professional,
    it's amusing that you (allegedly) run OpenBSD
    on SMP boxes. OpenBSD doesn't support SMP.
    Hope you didn't populate the other 3 CPU sockets.

    Rik

  5. Re:My experiences with Windows XP Professional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Some of them had had uptimes approaching a year!

    "It was so good that it never needed patching. It started its own irc daemons spontaneously" :)

  6. Re:HERE'S A REAL OFFICE SUITE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And if I ran Mac OS X (BSD) I could run the Microsoft stuff.

    I think better of myself than run Microsoft software.

  7. Yay by thanjee · · Score: 2

    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

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    1. Re:Yay by rtaylor · · Score: 2

      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.

      --
      Rod Taylor
    2. Re:Yay by thallgren · · Score: 1

      I've not compiled GNOME2, but I can tell you that compiling KDE2 takes a looong time on a P200MMX. We're talking days. :)

  8. Package? by Moox · · Score: 1
    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?

    1. Re: Package? by rsidd · · Score: 2

      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).

  9. Perfect timing! by Thornae · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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...)

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    |>
    Here be Dragons
  10. Bloatware by __past__ · · Score: 1
    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.

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    1. Re:Bloatware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:Bloatware by rsidd · · Score: 2
      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.

    3. Re:Bloatware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      stop being so stupid; you probably don't even know how to code never being able to read it.

  11. Rik is a dipshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hey Rik, did your mama give you that name? Rik.. hmm... I can't help but think there's something seriously wrong with you when I hear your name. Rik, is your life worth living? Rik, ever thought what it would feel like if a freightrain would run through your skull? I am sorry Rik, I can understand you haven't got any pussy and you never will, but is it our fault? No Rik, it isn't. So Rik, please, don't try to act like you know something about something. Rik, go visit your mama.

    1. Re:Rik is a dipshit by spunkykuma · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Someone like you shouldn't be on this site, you should apologize to Rik and next time post with your real account and stay on-topic

  12. FreeBSD rocks these days anyways. by austus · · Score: 1

    The FreeBSD team has really been outdoing itself lately.

    1. Re:FreeBSD rocks these days anyways. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      all three people? cmon reality check guys its dead, move back to linux...we forgive you.

  13. Binary Packages please! by atcurtis · · Score: 1

    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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    -- Except on one where stupidity was there first.
  14. Re:My experiences with Windows XP Professional by pope+nihil · · Score: 1

    Rik... You've been had. The comment you replied to is a common troll.

  15. Re:haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    BOOOO

    that was not haiku
    you need seven syllables
    suck it stupid bitch

  16. kind of funny really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The total amount of time spent hacking to get Open Office working on BSD is probably going to be less than the total amount of time BSD users are going to use it for word processing.

  17. Re:My experiences with Windows XP Professional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Since Open was forked off NetBSD, they are probably waiting for Net to get their SMP working well enough to copy the code into the OpenBSD tree.