Problems with portupgrade libreoffice

[Walter Hurry]

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:46:49 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote:
> 
>> On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote:
>>> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64.
>>>
>>> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4
>>> to 3.5.2.5). During the build it has (so far) errored out 4 times, in
>>> the following modules:
>>>
>>> vcl framework sfx2 tail_build
>>>
>>> Each time, it told me to go into the subdirectory, do a gmake clean
>>> and a gmake -r there, then return to the top level and rerun make.
>>>
>>> This I duly did, but to my surprise, each time I ran the gmake -r, it
>>> completed successfully.
>>>
>>> When the top-level make finally succeeds, I intend simply to rerun the
>>> portupgrade, on the theory that seeing everything already made, it
>>> will just do the uninstall/reinstall, sort out the dependencies and so
>>> forth.
>>>
>>> Q1) Is this a sensible approach?
>>>
>>> Q2) Has anyone else seen this? What is going on?
>>
>> There is a thread in the forums which recommends removing boost-libs
>> and boost-jam, building libreoffice then reinstalling them.
>> 
>> I did this and it worked for me.
> 
> Thanks. I'll try that and report back.

Yes, that did the trick. It zoomed through!
Very many thanks. I'll need to keep an eye on the forum, methinks.