Re: OpenOffice.org1.1 crash with: version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libm.so.6 with linktime reference

2003-06-10 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, I can start the ooffice1.1 without problems here on my debian ppc sid box (this is under debian glibc cvs 2.3.2-1). Everything seems to run fine so far. Jack

re: [announce] OpenOffice.org 1.1beta Debian packages

2003-05-19 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, What I am finding on the mirrors in pool/contrib/openoffice.org doesn't make any sense. All I find for 1.1beta2 are non-arch packages (*all.deb) with no arch specific binary packages for i386 or powerpc...what's up with that? Jack ps Kevin Hendricks requested tha

Re: Processed: only ppc, i386 works

2003-05-10 Thread Jack Howarth
Gotom, I downloaded the file in question... http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/Wissensw_1.pps ...and it loads fine under openoffice 1.0.3-2 from current debian sid against glibc 2.3.2-1. I don't have glibc 2.3.1-17 installed but I know there are significant thread issues with the recent debia

Bug#176932: openoffice.org: Printing to PDF files is so counterintuitive it looks broken

2003-01-16 Thread Jack Howarth
I'm not sure if it is in the upcoming 1.0.2, but the developer version 643c had a major rewrite of the pdf printing according to the release notes. Jack

Re: gcj-only build

2002-12-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, Try ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/openoffice-1.0.1-8.src.rpm As to the relocation error problems, I haven't seen them with 1.0.1-6 at all with the current glibc 2.3.1 packages. Can you point me to some of your oo packages that exhibit the problem? Also does

gcj-only build

2002-12-13 Thread Jack Howarth
Has anyone looked at the current rawhide srpms for openoffice 1.0.1? They are using a little hackery to allow openoffice to use gcj instead of a real JDK. This would be worth implementing in our debian openoffice packages since it would break the dependency on JDK and allow it to be moved from

Bug#171623: openoffice.org: OO crashes upon startu

2002-12-05 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, I haven't seen any of these relocation error crashes on my debian ppc sid box using 1.0.1-6 of openoffice.org. The only issues I have seen are occasional quits on startup in openoffice from the absence of __libc_waitpic in glibc 2.3.1 or glibc cvs. My workaround on that was to delete the

Re: Bug#168778: marked as done (openoffice.org: Ugly trutype fonts in PPC build)

2002-12-04 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, That was the problem. I had a set of files, fonts.dir, fonts.scale, etc in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType but there were no font files or symlinks to font files. After deleting these files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and doing a mkfontdir in that directory, which created an empty fonts.di

re: Bug#168778: marked as done (openoffice.org: Ugly trutype fonts in PPC build)

2002-12-04 Thread Jack Howarth
Is this really fixed for anyone? On my debian ppc sid box I am still having problems. In my case, unless I comment the line... FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 leaving only... FontPath"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"

openoffice oddity

2002-09-30 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, I haven't had time to look at this carefully yet but I believe if you run the current debian openoffice package with LD_DEBUG=files you'll see it is failing to load a shared lib in a non-fatal manner. I am wondering if you see the same thing on your machine (mine is running glibc cvs so I n

Re: OpenOffice.org on PPC and dependency on libstdc++4

2002-09-29 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, Two things. You may need to deinstall mozilla before you rebuild it as I'm not sure how tight that buildroot is. Second is to make sure you get the latest version of the mozilla gcc 3.1/3.2 patch that Franz made. I put a copy of it in a debian bug report against mozilla-snapshot... http://

Bug#162240: incorrect Depends in openoffice.org 1.0.1-5

2002-09-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Package: openoffice.org Version: 1.0.1-5 It appears that openoffice.org has an incorrect Depends on libstdc++.so.4 when in fact it is linked to libstdc++.so.5 now. This shows up when one tries to purge off all of gcc 3.1.1 from a debian ppc sid machine with openoffice.org installed. Apt-get clai

re: openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 built wrong???

2002-09-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, Looking at the binaries again, they all appear to be properly linked to libstdc++.so.5 so it must be a stale Depends in the debian/control file. We should do a 1.0.1-6 rebuild with this fixed though so folks can gracefully remove gcc 3.1.x from their machines. Jack

openoffice.org 1.0.1-5 built wrong???

2002-09-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, Since the debian gcc maintainers are in the process of removing gcc 3.1 from sid, I decided to purge it manually off of my machine and was shocked to see the following... bogus:/home# apt-get remove cpp-3.1 cpp-3.1-doc g77-3.1-doc gcc-3.1-base gcc-3.1-doc gij-3.1 gnat-3.1-doc libstdc++

openoffice breakage on new gcc 3.2.1 snapshot

2002-09-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Is anyone else seeing breakage of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1-5 after updating gcc-3.2 to the latest 3.2.1-0pre2 from 20020912? I see lots of errors of the form... 14922: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3: error: relocation error: undefined symbol: component_canUnload (fatal) when I do

oo vs gcc 3.2

2002-09-01 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, Speaking of mirroring, what is the status of the gcc 3.2 rebuilds of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1? I am rather confused by the state of things as seen from... http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/pool/main/stlport/ http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/pool/con

Re: [announce] OpenOffice.org 1.0.1-5 packages uploaded to unstable

2002-08-24 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, I'm rather confused here. I just looked on ftp.debian.org in "/debian/pool/contrib/o" and can find no evidence of the openoffice.org packages. Aren't they susposed to be on the main ftp servers now? Jack

Re: Gnome 2.0/Nautilius OO integration solved!!!

2002-07-28 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, I've posted a bug report, 154622, against gnome-mime-data with a patch to change the command in gnome-vfs.applications from ooffice to openoffice. As far as I know, upstream doesn't provide a ooffice binary although I could picture them eventually renaming their soffice binary to ooffice t

Re: Gnome 2.0/Nautilius OO integration solved!!!

2002-07-28 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, I submitted a bug against gnome-mime-data 2.0.0-1 over this suggesting the following patch... --- gnome-mime-data-2.0.0/gnome-vfs.applications2002-06-04 22:25:41.0 -0400 +++ gnome-mime-data-2.0.0/gnome-vfs.applications.new2002-07-28 14:33:52.0 -0400 @@ -379

Re: Gnome 2.0/Nautilius OO integration solved!!!

2002-07-28 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, Well you do realize that the openoffice document types are already defined in gnome-mime-data 2.0.0-1. The entries are... /usr/share/application-registry/gnome-vfs.applications openoffice command=ooffice name=OpenOffice.org can_open_multiple_files=true ex

one more Gnome desktop note for OO

2002-07-27 Thread Jack Howarth
I ran across one problem today after getting the Gnome 2.0 desktop and Nautilus to properly launch OpenOffice documents into OpenOffice.org (by the addition of the ooffice symlink). The icons on my .swx files disappeared. I turned out in trying to sort this all out I had accidentally caused a ~

Gnome 2.0/Nautilius OO integration solved!!!

2002-07-26 Thread Jack Howarth
In case anyone else is running Gnome 2.0 under debian sid, I discovered the trick to getting OpenOffice files recognized properly under Nautilius. With the current openoffice.org 1.0.1-3 packages you will find Nautilius can recognize openoffice files by their extensions and displays the appropr

offending file found

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
I have identified the offending file in openoffice.org_1.0.1-1_all.deb as usr/lib/openoffice/program/applicat.rdb. If I install the intel build of this over the ppc build of openoffice.org_1.0.1-1_all.deb, openoffice breaks. If I install the ppc build of this file over the intel build of openoffice

Re: openoffice problem identified!

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, Good news...bad news. The good news is that using the copy of openoffice.org_1.0.1-1_all.deb from your build machine at http://bourbaki.math.uni-kiel.de/~jpalic/OpenOffice.org/ I am able to run openoffice.org 1.0.1 using the remaining packages that I already had installed. The bad news is w

openoffice problem identified!

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
I think I have pinpointed the origin of the breakage in the current openoffice.org 1.0.1-1 packages on debian ppc sid. I diff'd the changes in the files between the Jul 14th and Jul 16th builds of openoffice.org_1.0.0-pre1.0.1rc3_all.deb. I notice that there is an installation database in usr/

Re: openoffice 1.0.1-1 failure on debian ppc sid

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, Michel Danzer is seeing exactly the same behavior on debian ppc sid. He also saw the last rc3 build as being broken as well in the same fashion. The only thing I can say is that there was a build for debian ppc on July 14 (for which I have the binaries archived). This build date corresp

Re: openoffice 1.0.1-1 failure on debian ppc sid

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Chris, However, unless I am greatly confused, there was a build of 1.0.1-rc3 done for the ppc as of July 14th. I downloaded the complete set of rc3 files on July 14th (and have archived copies). These work fine. On July 17th, for some reason part of rc3 got rebuilt yet again... File: openoffi

openoffice 1.0.1-1 failure on debian ppc sid

2002-07-25 Thread Jack Howarth
Has anyone managed to run the new openoffice 1.0.1-1 packages for ppc on debian sid? I am seeing exactly the same failure I saw a couple of weeks back when rc3 got partially rebuilt. At that time the orginal rc3 packages for oo 1.0.1, built on July 14th worked fine. The second rebuild of rc3 (wh

second 1.0.1rc3 build broken

2002-07-17 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Has anyone actually tried openoffice.org on debian ppc since the last rebuild of July 16th? I have the original rc3 build from July 14th installed and it works fine. However when I do a apt-get I now drag down... File: openoffice.org_1.0.0-pre1.0.1rc3_all.deb 11123 KB 07/16/02 10:42:0

Re: Problems with OpenOffice.org and gcc-3.1 on PowerPC and perhaps on intel, too! [was: kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca: [dev] question on cppuhelper throwException and double TYPELIB_DANGER_RELEASE]

2002-07-09 Thread Jack Howarth
Jan, The patch that I have for libgcc-compat causes the code to be built with or without gcc-3.1 being used for the build. If you are finding that soffice fails due to an illegal instruction, you might try rebuilding glibc 2.2.5 under gcc 2.95.4 and see if that causes the symbols to be resolved.

re: ttf font troubles

2002-05-11 Thread Jack Howarth
Tim, I don't see that problem here with msttcorefonts. I didn't do anything with the printer admin utility to make Verdana show up. Just installing mssttcorefonts and letting it download/install the fonts was sufficient for them to appear in the fonts menu of openoffice.org-1.0.0-3. I can get Ve

java and oo can work!

2002-05-09 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, I looked back through April mailing list archive for this group and am extremely puzzled by some declarations being made that java was disabled in the debian-openoffice builds. That is definitely not true at all. Java applets can work fine. You have just annoyed users by hiding the toggl

works

2002-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
I can confirm that the new j2re packages you made work with the openoffice.org 1.0-3 release (if you manually set up the account by running /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup rather than relying on the openoffice script to do it). Like Kevin Hendricks build of OpenOffice, the debian packages see

java and openoffice.org 1.0-3

2002-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Now that I have the font issue sorted out I decided to test the latest debian ppc jdk packages that Stephen Zander released... deb http://people.debian.org/~gibreel/debian sid main non-free deb-src http://people.debian.org/~gibreel/debian sid main non-free He used a new build of j2sd

-3 problems solved

2002-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
I found the bad player in my attempt to install openoffice.org 1.0-3 on my debian ppc sid machine. I had tried to removed msttcorefonts from my system with dpkg --purge at some point. That appears to be insufficient to remove all traces of the downloaded mstt fonts but deconfigures them thus c

major problems with -3

2002-05-08 Thread Jack Howarth
I was happily running the stock OpenOffice 1.0 build and made the major blunder of trying to install the new openoffice.org 1.0-3 package on debian ppc sid. Now I can't run openoffice at all. I had deinstalled the old copy from /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0 and removed the .soffice, .sversionrc a