Re: native openoffice on amd64?

[Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost>]

Well i can confirm this is amd64 related, i do not have problem with 
i386 one --- on same machine.

Regards,



Berndt Josef Wulf, 10/16/08 02:19:
> 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
>
>