Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Markos Chandras wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 November 2008 06:39:33 Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've got OpenOffice (compiled), v3.0.0 here.  It appears broken.
>>>> I haven't tried a lot of things, but this little RTF file gets it wedged
>>>> right away: the console that started it says:
>>>>
>>>> error - missing word count in dictionary file
>>>> Hash Manager Error : 4
>>>>
>>>> So I'm guessing there's a problem in a spell checker.  Where would I
>>>> look to solve that?
>>>>
>>> This may help:
>>>
>>> Spell checking is provided through our own myspell-ebuilds,
>>> if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package
>>> according to your language needs.
>>>
>>> Check to make sure myspell is installed correctly, perhaps re-emerge it.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>> As far as I remember , openoffice-3 doesnt uses myspell packages. It has its
>> own spelling dictionaries. But i am not 100% sure about that ...
>>
>>
>>
>
> Well, I quoted that from the message after OOo was done compiling.  I
> would assume that whoever put that message there knows what OOo uses.  I
> have no clue myself.  Mine just works, so far at least.
>


I wish I could be so lucky.  After reading some of the comments here,
I re-synced,
unmerged Ooo, and emerged openoffice and hunspell.  I already had the myspell-en
build.

The result:  a clean compile, as near as I can tell, but useless.  Now it quits
silently a second or so into any startup, with or without a filename on the
command line.  No message on the terminal where
I start it, and no clue I can see about what's wrong.

I'm back to MSOffice.  I hate it but it works.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD