More on the OO 64-bit source

[Jim McCarthy]

Listmembers --

Has there been a post I missed reporting actual success, in contrast to
simply "expectations that it should work" ?

My linux c-programming skills with "./configure" and "make" are only shaky
at best, so if someone who has actually been successful would be kind enough
to post a cookbook recipe including what source tarball (or equivalent) they
started with, and what steps were required to build the package
successfully, this would be *greatly* appreciated by me and perhaps by
others on this list also.

Personally I am much more comfortable with rpm-based installations and/or
with using rpmbuild to create installable rpm's from "source rpms".  But
from the e-mails below, I gather the OO sources are not packaged into a
"source rpm" (that would make life too easy :-).

I hope others have had success, and if so, thanks in advance for any simple
instructions to follow in your footsteps.

Regards,

    -- Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com
Behalf Of Dialup Jon Norstog
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:56 AM
To: Linux on Alpha processors
Subject: More on the OO 64-bit source

To the list:

here is the port maintainer's clarification on 64-bit source code.

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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.

-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com
Behalf Of U. George
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:17 AM
To: Linux on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: More on Open Office

It was written in mostly C++.
u should be able to build by running the setup script "./configure" .
configure will test your system to see if its up to snuff, and then
build makefiles appropriate to your machine, OS, and development
packages installed.
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