Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:41:15 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: Openoffice on sparc64 Message-ID: <16434.60651.517446.333285@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040218030553.GA27208@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <16434.53679.50673.905221@canoe.dclg.ca> <20040218030553.GA27208@xor.obsecurity.org>
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>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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================
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