From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 20 14:21:33 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 681AF284 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 14:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm31-vm6.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm31-vm6.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [72.30.239.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 152861F84 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 14:21:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1432131308; bh=Cjqiq2nq6CYhK9T0j9xeip9iR0+Bfsr2O7v/OfdixRA=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=k7VFaCEunGAj9t6YG8wdaoFKzac9ivy8Oh/5m/iIeZ7t0JfZFL1k79HJEHn5rOvKDSAJYpOvMIMMGMFPoIGwJnRXpUs8YiJl+3keGM+e7s4b2AHKcjyeIlCn/UC6dGfzBOPxPmQQvcma+R02TxSFtMih0XzYiNSk7YqcD9rSdoe7VLrYqsoAz8oXEBLqCHwDyU5Yfi5yed1bfFL4ClIKYVYjoX0Obkc/Sv+3+egwRgmke0hPq5bZ0s8ZFKMXy6wBpKyk+4C/jfiv0T5t2K6M312rQ61txCjty7qWBtU9KmLR8wzmTKEmcWZ7XyyZO7D7/xVG4UkkBYAb4etbAcm3eQ== Received: from [98.139.170.178] by nm31.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 May 2015 14:15:08 -0000 Received: from [68.142.230.76] by tm21.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 May 2015 14:15:08 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp233.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 May 2015 14:15:08 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 215966.31544.bm@smtp233.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: JX40wkoVM1lug_Lh5EfLhECGnJOA6yfODyIV4IvJ8tSLpKj cynymTreRviYafFTHYWTEm_mdP8D8MlRnwtg8ihiS0XpWxtyJ9INandNftov pBSKuHi5hyxYKYwaFCwDmmIMhR8laYzh3RNXVBqlO.n_8qo1ab6.IdD.WLaI p3FGwEy0LSvXxul64jR3MM5h1AVoN_Unr2dBhBNoImE7ySZU2_z3EC6oZBEK Vohc2AmHHHsh8O_Qek6wzJM8k2RPdvZkFCwXjddbaIq2a0gax4j6DXBDKT6e ZQwgIEHX9zU4tczQzMdUnexRfXKdUcDpSz9rp2._FIMLk6Isgtqr3VriuyIZ VGRcelGrQsEoAGFY_yJguoqYs_WyNkYeBlIhwSzy60EQIt7zAkhgUnbjUEa5 ffIENgLDZc0d5vH4fgJRtTmo_B_0qhmTYhx0HW57Wz1paWzKiSlO_99zN11. khz7X32nn8eHsigstj7PeTjyHbnprlek3.6sXf4cdm3bxVQjLsuYz6q8jfaV Sm8qatnnbCYl2TIOJmT8BnMotckwZWsY- X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf Message-ID: <555C96F0.4050606@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 09:15:12 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Hibbits , FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice on FreeBSD-ppc (was Re: LibreOffice 4) References: <52E1D3C9.8010206@FreeBSD.org> <20140125161823.GA41900@FreeBSD.org> <20140125084953.73f4a342@zhabar.gateway.2wire.net> <555BF61E.80103@FreeBSD.org> <555BFA0A.3030404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <555BFA0A.3030404@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:21:33 -0000 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 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