Re: native openoffice on amd64?

[Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf%ping.net.au@localhost>]

On Thursday 16 October 2008 08:32:23 Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:50:13 +0200
>
> Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've built pkgsrc/misc/openoffice2 and now also openoffice3 on
> > NetBSD/amd64 4.99.72.  They both build and package fine,  and do
> > start up,  but run very unstable.  An easily reproducible crash is to
> > open an empty spreadsheet (or any spreadsheet), and hit "Delete" on
> > any cell in it -> OpenOffice restarts immediatly into document
> > recovery mode.  No error is shown, also not in the xterm I started
> > soffice from.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
>
> I can reproduce that (same platform and NetBSD version).  In practice,
> though, instability has not been a problem for me.  The only serious
> issue I have had is the inability to save .ppt files.
>
> > openoffice2-bin (32-bit linux binary), as well as openoffice3-bin
> > (manually installed rpms) work without any problem.
>
> I haven't been able to get any 32-bit linux binaries to run.
>
> Where is openoffice3?  In wip?
>
>
>               --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


FYI, I can't reproduce this on a NetBSD 4.99.72 (GENERIC)  i386 system. Maybe 
this is a AMD64 issue?

cheerio Berndt