Re: openoffice2 powerpoint problem on amd64-current

[Nikola Lecic <nikola.lecic%anthesphoria.net@localhost>]

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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:24:45 +0000
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
 
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:17:48 +0100
> Nikola Lecic <nikola.lecic%anthesphoria.net@localhost> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:36:43 +0000
> > "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
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> > > I'm trying to run native Openoffice2 on an amd64-current system.
> > > When I try to save a presentation in Powerpoint format, it pops up
> > > a box saying "Error save the document ...: Write Error.  The file
> > > could not be written."  There are no other messages, and I can
> > > save the file in the same directory in .odp format.  Any
> > > suggestions? Not being able to generate Powerpoint is a serious
> > > problem for me. (Not that I particularly want to use Powerpoint
> > > -- I create most of my slides using LaTeX -- but sometimes I have
> > > to use it for compatibility with others.)
> > > 
> > > Note: this is, as I noted, native Openoffice2, which I compiled
> > > myself.  Linux32 emulation isn't working well enough for me, per a
> > > post the other day about acroread.
> > 
> > Good evening Steve,
> > 
> > I recall a very similar case with OOo2 on FreeBSD/amd64. The problem
> > was a bug in gcc-4.1 used to compile it: upgrading gcc (I think to
> > 4.2) and recompiling OpenOffice resolved all problems.
>
> Interesting.  NetBSD-current has gcc-4.1.3.  I don't know about plans
> to move to anything in gcc-4.2, but there was a comment in another
> thread that GPLv3 issues (plus some regressions) were blocking any
> move to gcc-4.2.3.

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).

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?)

Nikola
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