<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Note there is also an officially supported Itanium 64-bit (ia64) release of the latest OpenOffice. I do not have much depth of C-programming experience myself, but one of the people working on Itanium support + development of the Red-Hat-based "Scientific Linux CERN" Linux OS once mentioned to me that ia64 was a more "stringent" (or strict) 64-bit implementation than 64-bit x86. His experience was such that source code upgraded from 32-bit x86 to 64-bit x86 was not necessarily guaranteed to be up-to-snuff for building "as is" on ia64 -- i.e., some additional 64-bit upgrades to the source code are frequently required in order to build the code successfully on ia64. Conversely 32-bit source code upgraded to adhere to the stricter 64-bit demands for building on ia64 were then fine building "as is" on 64-bit x86. I can't say whether this is indeed true, or not -- and if true, whether the existence of an Itanium release of OpenOffice has anything to do with getting those same source codes to build successfully on 64-bit Alpha platforms -- but I thought it was an interesting claim that one could apparently get away with certain legacy 32-bit programming practices on 64-bit x86 that were strictly forbidden on ia64. -- Jim --- On Thu, 10/28/10, Dialup Jon Norstog <thursday@allidaho.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Dialup Jon Norstog <thursday@allidaho.com> Subject: More on the OO 64-bit source To: "Linux on Alpha processors" <axp-list@redhat.com> Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 9:55 AM <div class="plainMail">To the list: here is the port maintainer's clarification on 64-bit source code. ********************************************************** On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 08:52 -0600, Jon Norstog wrote: > Thanks for getting back to me, Caolan. So that means the 64-bit X-86 > source is Alpha-friendly? In theory at least it should build on Alpha. I ported the core bit, the uno bridge, to Alpha some time ago. Its not like it gets built every day so parts mightn't work. Various workarouns like configuring --with-system-python and/or --with-system-mozilla etc to avoid building the in-tree copies and use the copy already installed might be helpful to avoid any gotchas with those. C. _______________________________________________ axp-list mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:axp-list@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=axp-list@redhat.com">axp-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>