On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:27:57PM -0800, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> I've upgraded all my server machines at home to 2.0.
> The upgrades went fine fwiw though I admit to doing it the old
> fashioned way (except for one sparc machine that I booted from the
> CD).
> 
> Anyway, all my old 1.6.2 packages still work - except for soffice
> (openoffice), which dumps core.  I'm running the 2.0 GENERIC kernel on
> the relevant machine fwiw.  Sadly my wife needs something that
> can grok the .xls and .doc files people keep sending her.
> 
> I don't actually fancy building the package and (I imagine) the many
> packages that it depends on, so was wondering if anyone has built
> openoffice for 2.0/i386 ?  I may still get caught having to replace
> virtually all my packages but if I can put that off for a bit I will.
I have built OO on my laptop for some 2.0 beta so I can post it
somewhere if you wish.
But since the linux emulation does not crash NetBSD any longer I would
recommend that as the Linux binary is newer version.
The OO package does not have many requirements and it is easy to
compile, just do leave the compilation running overnight if your machine
is not very powerful (tried with pIII 600MHz mobile + 128MB RAM) :)

Regards 

Michal Suchanek