From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 20:41:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9FA16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9066143D1D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 35CBD308D5; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:41:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 5AB391D2071; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:41:16 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16434.60651.517446.333285@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:41:15 -0500 To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20040218030553.GA27208@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <16434.53679.50673.905221@canoe.dclg.ca> <20040218030553.GA27208@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: sparc64@freebsd.org cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: Openoffice on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:41:21 -0000 >>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway writes: Kris> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:45:03PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: >> Openoffice seems to require java. The ports install of Openoffice >> proceeds to try to install the FreeBSD java that bootstraps itself >> with linux java. Of course, the linux java doesn't run on sparc64. >> >> Are there sparc64 java binary packages that run on FreeBSD ... or >> is there some other bootstrap mechanism that I can follow? Kris> Not yet, but someone posted here the other day asking for Kris> technical assistance in porting jdk13 (no response to the list Kris> yet). I don't suppose binary compatibility with solaris is good enough to give us a leg up? Does java cross compile in any way? Is it possible to get openoffice working without java? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================