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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:56:11 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Openoffice on sparc64
Message-ID:  <20040218055611.GA34806@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <16434.60651.517446.333285@canoe.dclg.ca>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:41:15PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> >>>>> "Kris" =3D=3D Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
>=20
> Kris> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:45:03PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> >> Openoffice seems to require java.  The ports install of Openoffice
> >> proceeds to try to install the FreeBSD java that bootstraps itself
> >> with linux java.  Of course, the linux java doesn't run on sparc64.
> >>=20
> >> Are there sparc64 java binary packages that run on FreeBSD ... or
> >> is there some other bootstrap mechanism that I can follow?
>=20
> Kris> Not yet, but someone posted here the other day asking for
> Kris> technical assistance in porting jdk13 (no response to the list
> Kris> yet).
>=20
> I don't suppose binary compatibility with solaris is good enough to
> give us a leg up?

No, given that FreeBSD/sparc64 doesn't have binary compatibility with
solaris yet :-)
=20
> Does java cross compile in any way?

The problem is in MD code, so cross-compiling the jdk won't help.

> Is it possible to get openoffice working without java?

I don't know, but I don't think so.

Kris

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