We are working on a port of OpenOffice to AIX at the moment. I was wondering if anyone knew of other people that are also working on this. It's been quite a bit of effort so far but we are making progress. We would be happy to work with some others to speed the work up if possible.
Michael Stahl-3 wrote: > > hi Sumik, > > On 26/03/2010 10:58, Sumik Basu wrote: >> Hi Team, >> >> For our project purpose we need to run OpenOffice in AIX environment. >> Please let us know is there any support for OpenOffice in AIX platform. > > from the content of your message and the lack of replies it looks like you > just volunteered to port OOo to AIX :) > > there are actually various references to AIX in the code base: > > http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/Current%20(trunk)/tools/inc/tools/solar.h#312 > > here the platform UNXAIXP is defined, which is presumably AIX on PPC, with > X11. > > so at one time someone was working on a port. > but probably that was a very long time ago, maybe even in the nineties. > > i guess if you really want to do a port, it may be a good idea to use GCC > as the C++ compiler instead of whatever half-baked C++ implementation IBM > ships, because the reasonable working assumption is that all C++ > implementations are broken, which implies that GCC is broken in some ways > too, but the current OOo code base is already adapted to the ways in which > GCC 4.x is broken, which is not true for the IBM compiler. > (iirc the lone maintainer of our OS/2 port also chose to use GCC instead > of the IBM compiler; presumably for good reasons) > > regards, > michael > > -- > "And now the budget’s balanced > Retrenchment is the hero > On either side is entered > A solitary Zero" -- Laurie Tarshis, "The Elements of Economics" > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/OpenOffice-support-for-AIX-tp28040381p29024776.html Sent from the openoffice - porting dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
