openoffice on ppc anyone?

[William Blew]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > 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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William Blew, wblew at home.com
Gamer by Choice, Geek by Birth


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