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 these are no longer active in the community as the most are working on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.

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