From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:17:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Michael Schmitz cc: Thomas Graichen , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: openoffice on ppc anyone? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > is anyone trying to get the now opensource staroffice to compile on > > linux/ppc? > > I've given up on this - the build tools included in the source package are > binary only (Intel or Sparc), no sources so far as I can see, and the > stuff in config_office has a number of hardcoded assumptions that make > life miserable (gcc version == 2.95.2, jdk 1.2.2 which requires glibc > 2.1.3, Linux only exists on Intel and Sparc, ...). Basically, it sucks. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Look at the bright side: at least the code should be endianness and 64-bit clean :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/