Re: open office on the alpha was: openafs on alpha

["Andrei A. Dergatchev" <A.Dergatchev@tn.utwente.nl>]

Hi Chris !

"Christopher C. Chimelis" wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, HAUGUET Francis wrote:
>
> > While talking about that, did someone try to compile openoffice on his
> > alpha workstation ?
> > and is that works ?
>
> The port is still going on, from what I've seen on the OpenOffice
> list.  They still haven't gotten it to compile completely yet (at least
> not on Linux...I think one of the BSD's is ok now, though).  With the
> current state of gcc 2.95.x, though, I highly doubt that it would
> work.

Well, why ? If it works for powerpc and netbsd/sparc,
it should be too bad on Alpha too. Well, at least I hope :-)
It is just the fact that we're the only ones who have to deal
with longs manually, instead of using a compiler switch :-(

>  Perhaps Redhat's compiler would and possibly a pre-3.0 gcc, but
> definitely not 2.95.x.
>
> C

Regards,

Andrei