--- config_office/configure.orig	Thu Oct 12 02:34:03 2000
+++ config_office/configure	Fri Oct 13 17:52:25 2000
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@
 echo $ac_n "checking the operating system""... $ac_c" 1>&6
 echo "configure:741: checking the operating system" >&5
 _os=`uname`
-if test "$_os" = "SunOS" -o "$_os" = "Linux" -o "$_os" = "WINNT" -o "$_os" = "Darwin"; then
+if test "$_os" = "SunOS" -o "$_os" = "Linux" -o "$_os" = "WINNT" -o "$_os" = "Darwin" -o "$_os" = "FreeBSD"; then
    echo "$ac_t""checked ($_os)" 1>&6
 else
    { echo "configure: error: $_os operating system is not suitable to build OpenOffice!" 1>&2; exit 1; }