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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:38:39 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        ryan.p.davis@gmail.com
Cc:        openoffice@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Open Office on FreeBSD powerPC 
Message-ID:  <201410171138.s9HBcdPO085590@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 17 Oct 2014 02:37:15 -0400." <201410170637.s9H6bF8F014323@piggy.homeless.net>

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ryan.p.davis@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a PowerPC G5 system that I am using FreeBSD on. How do I build/compile OpenOffice for this platform? When I go to /usr/ports/editors and make install, I get the error that the source tree there is for i386 and AMD64.
> 
> Am I missing something? Or do I need to go to a different location? Or do I have to figure out how to pull down raw source code and determine my build dependancies and etc to compile from scratch without a make file?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>  ryan

Maybe try libreoffice ?

cd /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/editors
grep ONLY_FOR_ARCHS *office*/Makefile
	openoffice-4/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=   i386 amd64
	openoffice-devel/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=       i386 amd64
echo *libreoffice*	# lots

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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