On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:28:17PM -0400, Philip J. Robar wrote: > On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > http://alasdairrr.tumblr.com/post/10404734792/libreoffice > > > > We've been joined by a LibreOffice developer in #oi-dev, who is willing to > > help us with a port of LibreOffice to OpenIndiana. > > > > Unfortunately all the usual suspects who might work on this are tied up - > > so I'm mailing the lists to find out if anyone might be interested in > > collaborating with us on this? > > > > Ideally someone who steps forward should know their way around a Makefile > > pretty well and have ported software to Solaris before - LibreOffice is > > pretty big. > > > > Getting LibreOffice into OI would be a big win - it's an often requested > > package. > > I used to do this type of thing all of the time for my group’s local server > when I was at Sun so I can probably help*. However, when I found the source > tar balls at LibreOffice’s site I was unmoved by the lack of documentation. > But then, I found this site: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ > — which seems to be the place to get stated, yes? > > Since it already builds on numerous UNIX™ and UNIX like systems I presume > that the port ought to be pretty straight forward. Is there anything in > particular that I need to know about before I get started?
Cool. Were on IRC (#oi-dev on FreeNode) where we can help you get started. I am not sure what Alasdair had in mind, but I guess this wiki page would be a good start: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-build Jeff. -- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
