Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 23:13:22 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@www.freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice2.0 64Bit ready? Message-ID: <20050810061322.GA91774@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050810034707.GA49313@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <42ECB269.4030206@mail.uni-mainz.de> <20050802172840.GE71672@dragon.NUXI.org> <20050805225309.GA99941@luke.immure.com> <20050810034707.GA49313@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:47:08PM -0700, 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. > To some extent, the Ports Collection has outlived its usefulness. It took me 4 hours to fix libgmp4 and add a new port for mpfr because the Porter's Handbook is useless. -- Steve
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