In message <20000213112256.A18761@realms.nimenees.com>, erh@nimenees.com writes
:
>	I installed staroffice off the CD and it was dumping core on me
>too.  It started working once I mounted /proc.  Perhaps this is your
>problem too?  The package should probably check for this somehow.
>(as well as recognize the 7 piece install too, of course)

FWIW, I just downloaded StarOffice (just the one file), and put it in
distfiles, and ran 'make && make install' in the pkg directory, and it
worked great.  Just wrote a chapter for a book with it.

-s