The other change led to a small improvement, but also a query. I installed the latest stable boost-1.42.0-r2 + boost-build-1.42.0 , which go in new slots; I also updated to icu-4.6 + numpy-1.5.1 (the latter is probably irrelevant here, but Icu is needed for OO). Using more haste than sense after 'emerge -cpv =boost-1.41.0-r3' showed nothing depended on that version, I unmerged it & the corresponding boost-build-1.41.0 , then trying to remerge openoffice-3.2.1-r1 , I hit a configure error. After I restored the apparently unneeded versions of Boost(-build), Openoffice compiled without any further complaint.
Can anyone explain why the latest stable Openoffice can't use the latest stable slotted Boost(-build), which is used only for OO ? Perhaps the devs have tripped up slightly in the sequence of updates. After the updates described, the OO splash screen now appears after c 2 sec , where before it took c 5 sec to show up, so there's a very nice improvement in performance anyway. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
