openoffice on ppc anyone?

i hope it's ok to ask this on the dev list - but i assume that it's
not a trivial task - so i hope it's the right list and thus ok ...

is anyone trying to get the now opensource staroffice to compile on
linux/ppc?

  http://www.openoffice.org

t

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is anyone trying to get the now opensource staroffice to compile on
linux/ppc?

I've given up on this - the build tools included in the source package are
binary only (Intel or Sparc), no sources so far as I can see, and the
stuff in config_office has a number of hardcoded assumptions that make
life miserable (gcc version == 2.95.2, jdk 1.2.2 which requires glibc
2.1.3, Linux only exists on Intel and Sparc, ...). Basically, it sucks.

	Michael


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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

quoted

is anyone trying to get the now opensource staroffice to compile on
linux/ppc?

I've given up on this - the build tools included in the source package are
binary only (Intel or Sparc), no sources so far as I can see, and the
stuff in config_office has a number of hardcoded assumptions that make
life miserable (gcc version == 2.95.2, jdk 1.2.2 which requires glibc
2.1.3, Linux only exists on Intel and Sparc, ...). Basically, it sucks.

                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Look at the bright side: at least the code should be endianness and 64-bit
clean :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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quoted

I've given up on this - the build tools included in the source package are
binary only (Intel or Sparc), no sources so far as I can see, and the
stuff in config_office has a number of hardcoded assumptions that make
life miserable (gcc version == 2.95.2, jdk 1.2.2 which requires glibc
2.1.3, Linux only exists on Intel and Sparc, ...). Basically, it sucks.

                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Look at the bright side: at least the code should be endianness and 64-bit
clean :-)

Byte endianness clean, perhaps. 64 bit clean? You wish: sparc64 was not an
explicit option. What does uname -m on a sparc64 give?

	Michael


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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:

quoted

quoted

is anyone trying to get the now opensource staroffice to compile on
linux/ppc?

I've given up on this - the build tools included in the source package are
binary only (Intel or Sparc), no sources so far as I can see, and the
stuff in config_office has a number of hardcoded assumptions that make
life miserable (gcc version == 2.95.2, jdk 1.2.2 which requires glibc
2.1.3, Linux only exists on Intel and Sparc, ...). Basically, it sucks.

                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Look at the bright side: at least the code should be endianness and 64-bit
clean :-)

I strongly suggest that anyone even thinking about this take a look at the
site. It has detailed build instructions that include how to build the
build tools.

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