[nycbug-talk] OpenOffice 2.0 on FreeBSD 6.0 Build Failure (gconf2)

[Kevin Reiter]

Scott Robbins wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:56:02PM -0500, Kevin Reiter wrote:
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>>Hey all,
>>
>>I'm attempting to install OpenOffice.org 2.0 in FreeBSD 6.0.  I didn't have any 
>>problems until after getting Java installed, when it moved onto gconf2:
>>
>>===>   openoffice.org-2.0.0_1 depends on shared library: gconf-2.5 - not found
>>===>    Verifying install for gconf-2.5 in /usr/ports/devel/gconf2
>>===>  gconf2-2.12.1 is marked as broken: Unknown component ltverhack.
>>*** Error code 1
>>
>>Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gconf2.
>>*** Error code 1
>>
>>I ran a cvsup last night, so the ports tree is recent as of then.
>>
>>Does anyone know a workaround/fix/suggestion for this?  I have portaudit 
>>installed, which is what I'm guessing is stopping the build, although I could 
>>be wrong.  Is there a way to bypass the check for this if that's the case?
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> The way to ignore a check is make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES install
> clean
> 
> However, usually, if it's a security issue, it will say so.  There is a
> way to ignore a port being marked as broken too, you can try with
> - -DTRYBROKEN, that is, make -DTRYBROKEN install clean. 
> 
> (Both of these tags can be found in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk)

Thanks for the info!


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