Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 09:15:12 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice on FreeBSD-ppc (was Re: LibreOffice 4) Message-ID: <555C96F0.4050606@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <555BFA0A.3030404@gmail.com> References: <52E1D3C9.8010206@FreeBSD.org> <20140125161823.GA41900@FreeBSD.org> <20140125084953.73f4a342@zhabar.gateway.2wire.net> <555BF61E.80103@FreeBSD.org> <555BFA0A.3030404@gmail.com>
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On 05/19/15 22:05, Justin Hibbits wrote: > Hi Pedro, > > This is great! Unfortunately, it's difficult to test, since openjdk > doesn't yet build for powerpc. I tried in the past, but gave up when > hitting basic roadblocks (at one point, probably even now still, it > required a bootstrap jdk running on x86, which I just don't have). If > only there were about 70 more hours in a day, to work on this. > > - Justin Hmm .. unfortunately OpenOffice just requires java and there is no interest/work going on to change that. I guess other office suites can fill the role while that happens :(. Pedro. > On 05/19/15 19:49, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> Hello guys; >> >> Just thought I'd update this old thread ... >> >> I did merge into upstream OpenOffice the bare-bones support >> for FreeBSD powerpc [1]. >> >> It is untested, I am pretty sure you will have to do changes so that >> it finds openjdk(?) but editors/openoffice-devel should have what >> you need to get started. >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> Pedro. >> >> [1] >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1608245 >> >> On 01/25/14 11:49, Justin Hibbits wrote: >>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:18:23 +0000 >>> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:45:29PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>>>> My recommendation is to start from 4.0.1 and then upstream your >>>>> changes (it should not be difficult). For PPC you can, of course, >>>>> borrow heavily from linux-ppc. Here is an old guide that may help: >>>>> >>>>> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Lazy_Hackers_Guide_To_Porting >>>> Thanks; I'll certainly take a look; right now I'm still fighting with >>>> X11 problems on PPC and Clang-builds on -CURRENT/i386. >>> Clang isn't quite complete for ppc32 (it mostly works, with some >>> issues, on ppc64, those are being worked out). For C++11 features, and >>> better support in general, I'd recommend gcc48. >>> >>> As for X11 problems, what problems are you having? Nathan fixed >>> building WITH_NEW_XORG and has a patch floating around, I believe he >>> filed a couple PRs on it, too. >>> >>> - Justin
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