[GLLUG] Question about tar/Gentoo Linux/emerge

[Mike Szumlinski]

On a fun side note...

using GNU-Darwin all you have to do is type "pkg_add -rf openoffice" and 
it will grab the binary for you and install...pretty simple.

I love OS X.

-Mike

On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 02:52  PM, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> OpenOffice is a monster to build, even more so than Mozilla... ;)
> Haven't even tried building OpenOffice because of the requirements to
> compile.  From the FreeBSD port of OpenOffice:
>
> "To build Openoffice, you should have a lot
> of free diskspace (~ 4GB) and you should
> be an experienced port builder. This port
> has beta quality and does not yet work as
> stable as it should."
>
> Eeek!!