Building packages

[Michael L. Squires]

I'm going to try building packages for OpenOffice 1.1, hopefully both for
5.2-RC/CURRENT and 4.9-STABLE.  Are there particular versions of the
FreeBSD OpenOffice port that someone wants first?

I'm building the 5.x packages using 5.2-RC since this should work both with
5.2-RELEASE and 5.2-CURRENT.  I'm installing gcc33 on the 4.9-STABLE box
and this will hopefully compile OpenOffice for that platform.

I'm relatively new to this task in the FreeBSD world, so any pointers on how
to create and test packages (especially what options should or should not be
used) would be helpful.

Backing down my 5.2-CURRENT box to 5.2-RC is still going on (portupgrade to
recompile everything, since I've found at least one application which works
under 5.2-CURRENT but not under 5.2-RC).

Mike Squires
UN*X at home
since 1986
mikes at siralan.org