OpenOffice on Ultra 5

[MD]

I'm running Debian testing on Ultra Sparc 5.
Is there a chance to see soon openoffice deb packages for sparc?

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[Frank Van Damme]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:15, MD wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing on Ultra Sparc 5.
> Is there a chance to see soon openoffice deb packages for sparc?

Can't you download the source packages and dkpg-buildpackage -rfakeroot them?

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[Thomas Duffy]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 05:16, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:15, MD wrote:
> > I'm running Debian testing on Ultra Sparc 5.
> > Is there a chance to see soon openoffice deb packages for sparc?
>
> Can't you download the source packages and dkpg-buildpackage -rfakeroot them?

I doubt it will build. There was a port of openoffice.org 1.0.3 to
Sparc/linux floating around that a guy know as "The Shrink" did for
Aurora. I made a patch from his source and posted it to the Aurora
Sparc list. Here is a link to it:

http://www.dslextreme.com/users/tomduffy/openoffice-sparc.diff.bz2

Once applying this patch, you should be able to build 1.0.3.

-tduffy

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[Frank Van Damme]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:35, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> I doubt it will build. There was a port of openoffice.org 1.0.3 to
> Sparc/linux floating around that a guy know as "The Shrink" did for
> Aurora. I made a patch from his source and posted it to the Aurora
> Sparc list. Here is a link to it:
>
> http://www.dslextreme.com/users/tomduffy/openoffice-sparc.diff.bz2
>
> Once applying this patch, you should be able to build 1.0.3.

Why is a userspace app like openoffice hardware dependent? It normally works
on Solaris/Sparc doesn't it?

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:06, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:35, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> > I doubt it will build. There was a port of openoffice.org 1.0.3 to
> > Sparc/linux floating around that a guy know as "The Shrink" did for
> > Aurora. I made a patch from his source and posted it to the Aurora
> > Sparc list. Here is a link to it:
> >
> > http://www.dslextreme.com/users/tomduffy/openoffice-sparc.diff.bz2
> >
> > Once applying this patch, you should be able to build 1.0.3.
>
> Why is a userspace app like openoffice hardware dependent? It normally works
> on Solaris/Sparc doesn't it?

OpenOffice.org is the code equivalent of a nuclear submarine built
entirely from popsicle sticks.

It has arch and OS specific asm code in it. Don't look at it too long,
or you will go insane.

As far as I'm concerned (having looked at the OOo code base and patched
it into building for Aurora), "The Shrink" deserves a medal. At the very
minimum, he deserves his sanity back. ;)

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[Steve Pacenka]

Before spending several hours building, I first tried the binary tarball
made by the "The Shrink" for Aurora, installing on a U10 running Sid.
The binary package seems to have no Aurora-specific dependencies. After
an uneventful install, I've been using it for editing old and new OO.o
and MS Word text documents (tables of contents, tables, figures, auto
spellcheck, online help, change settings, ...) for a couple of hours
without major incident.

Thanks to The Shrink for wading through this monstrosity and suffering
through a build, and to you for the pointer to the Aurora list.

(Crossposting to debian openoffice.org list.)

-- SP

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> -tduffy