Re: OpenOffice.org on arm
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 17:31:30 +0100 Peter Naulls <peter@chocky.org> wrote:
> In message <[🔎] 20040626214122.1cfc81c1.harrymc@decisions-and-designs.com.au>
> Harry <harrymc@decisions-and-designs.com.au> wrote:
>
> > OpenOffice.org webmaster has someone asking about OOo on arm. I'm guessing the
> > only likely build will come from debian but I've had someone today explain that
> > there are some architecture specific sections in OOo that makes each port more
> > than a recompile of the debianized OOo source.
> >
> > Can anyone advise if anyone is working on the package for arm ?
>
> I am currently working on it. I have it fully built and mostly sensibly
> patched, but am working on what I hope will be the only coding required
> for it. The Debian maintainer is aware of my work.
Thanks for the advice Peter.
> One of the big issues is that it takes ~3 days to build on my 600Mhz ARM
> machine.
I can understand that. That's no small source tree :-)
This is an uninformed question but are there resources available to allow
you to cross compile the package or is it preferable to build packages
natively ? I'm interested because I've lurked for a while here and read
discussion about access to more resources to build packages.
> To the best of my knowledge, the ARM pepole listed as porters on the OO
> site have not worked on it for quite some years.
Hmmm. That may be why the request came through to the webmaster.
Best wishes
Harry
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