Re: native openoffice on amd64?

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

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