Alpha Source Code?

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

To the list,

Thanks for the insight, especially Mike's long and detailed explanation. 
OpenOfficeOrg's sources seem to be platform-specific.  Based on what you all
said, I decided to try building OO from the fedora SRPM, which I am
downloading at a torrential 4k/sec as I write.

Let's see what happens.

jn  

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris at redhat.com>
To: Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:30:07 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Alpha Source Code?

> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> 
> >To the list, and particularly the Alpha Core guys: 
> >
> >Did you use the AMD64-bit source code, or the i86 sources? I was thinkin about
> >taking a crack at compiling open office if I don't have to mess around with
> >the sources too much.
> >
> >Or is it the same source code?
> 
> This may or may not be relevant to your question, but I think it 
> may shed some light on how Fedora Core is developed anyway...
> 
> Fedora Core is developed internally at Red Hat on 7 different
> architectures simultaneously.  Every single RPM package that gets 
> built in our internal "rawhide" collection instance, is 
> automatically built on all 7 architectures.  The architectures 
> include:
> 
> x86
> AMD64
> ia64
> ppc
> ppc64
> s390
> s390x
> 
> If the build fails on any one of these architectures, the 
> buildsystem terminates the build on all of the others 
> automatically.