https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126614
--- Comment #5 from Curtis Hamilton <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Marcus from comment #4) > (In reply to Curtis Hamilton from comment #3) > > (In reply to Marcus from comment #2) > > > First of all, PowerPC is not a supported platform. > > > > > > I don't think that you will find someone in the AOO community that could > > > do > > > the porting to FreeBSD on MacOS PowerPC. > > > > > > So, the normal way would be that you try this on your own. > > > > > > However, this is of course just IMHO. > > > > A review of the code indicates the PowerPC CPU is supported for NetBSD and > > Linux. > > Interesting, I know that MacOS on PPC was an officially supported platform. > But FreeBSD on PPC is really unusual and I didn't know this before. > Therefore I think it must be a remaining part of an old attempt to get > another port - maybe from the 1.x or early 2.x days of OffenOffice. > > > Therefore, you should be able to support FreeBSD PowerPC. In fact, I've > > I wouldn't think so far. This doesn't mean we are able to provide help. > Maybe it was the work of one or a handful of people. I'm pretty sure that > these are no longer active in the community as the most are working on > Windows, OSX and Linux with x86 CPU, 1-2 on OS/2, 1-2 with FreeBSD *) and a > few on Solaris. > > > already created patches that allow AOO to compile on this platform. > > > > However, I've been unable to resolve this one issue, which seems not to be > > related to the OS or CPU. > > OK, that sounds promising. > > *) Because it's FreeBSD maybe you should get in contact with Pedro Giffuni. > Please write a mail to the developers mailing list (see here: > http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#development-mailing-list- > public). It's the better (best) way to get in contact with developers in > general when you have problems with building. > > HTH Thanks! I'll do that. Maybe they can share some light on this issue. I've been able to hack my way past this to a complete build. But I get "Application Error" whenever I attempt to execute AOO. This is the only visible build error. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
