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Date:      Wed, 10 Aug 2005 06:51:00 -0500
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>
Cc:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice2.0 64Bit ready?
Message-ID:  <20050810115100.GA66492@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <200508100913.36763.andy@athame.co.uk>
References:  <42ECB269.4030206@mail.uni-mainz.de> <20050805225309.GA99941@luke.immure.com> <20050810034707.GA49313@dragon.NUXI.org> <200508100913.36763.andy@athame.co.uk>

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:13:33AM +0300, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 August 2005 06:47, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:53:09PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:28:40AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 01:13:45PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > > > > Dear Sirs.
> > > > > I do not follow up everything written herein, so my question may
> > > > > sound stupid.
> > > > > On my FreeBSD 6.0 AMD64 box I run a 'clean' 64 Bit FreeBSD 6.0 (no
> > > > > 32Bit compatibility). I want to use OpenOffice from time to time
> > > > > reading Word or Excel documents. Can we compile and run OO 2.0
> > > > > without 32 Bit compatibility enabled? I know this implies 64Bit clean
> > > > > code, so the major question would be whether OO 2 is 64 Bit clean or
> > > > > not.
> > > >
> > > > No OOo isn't 64-bit clean.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to build and run a 32-bit version of OOo on AMD64?
> >
> > Build, no.  Run should be possible.  Someone really needs to sit down and
> > wrap their heads around the Ports Collection and make it so that we can
> > install 32-bit i386 packages (actually just the .so's) on FreeBSD/AMD64.
> 
> I actually tried this just the other day, using pkg_add to install the 32bit 
> OOo. There were no errors during the pkg_add, but when I try to configure:
> 
> $ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.5/setup
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsal.so.3" not found, required by 
> "javaldx"
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsb645fi.so" not found, required by 
> "setup.bin"
> 
> I haven't really had time to investigate this further though.

I had the same problem when I tried to run a 32bit version of OOo on my
AMD64 system; and like you, haven't had a chance to persue it yet.

Bob

-- 
Bob Willcox                The early bird who catches the worm works for someone
bob@immure.com             who comes in late and owns the worm farm.
Austin, TX                         -- Travis McGee



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