Re: openoffice2 powerpoint problem on amd64-current

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:42:45 +0100
Nikola Lecic <nikola.lecic%anthesphoria.net@localhost> wrote:

> Since you can't use Linux binaries, is it possible to run
> FreeBSD/amd64 ones? If yes, you can find them here:
> 
>   ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD
> 
> (these are builds by official FreeBSD-OOo porting team).

I don't know what the status of FreeBSD emulation for amd64 is -- I've
never tried it.  In theory, there should be emulation of linux32, but I
haven't been able to get that to work with acroread.
> 
> Besides, maybe you can try with newer 4.1 version? (AFAIK gcc-4.2.1 is
> still GPLv2: gcc4.2 has been imported to the base of upcoming
> FreeBSD-7.0 release. Are there plans to include gcc >= 4.2.1 in
> pkgsrc?)
> 
I have no idea.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb