Subject: Re: OpenOffice for NetBSD/powerpc
To: , <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 03/13/2001 17:13:13
	Kevin B. Hendricks, who helps support OpenOffice ppc linux has
	offered to help with getting OpenOffice running on powerpc
	based NetBSD ports, if someone with such a box is willing to
	help with builds.

	Volunteers please get in touch with him directly at
	Kevin B. Hendricks <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>

		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A port to NetBSD powerpc should be relatively straight forward and I would be
> happy to help (I help support ppc linux) if you can drum up somepne with a
> NETBSD ppc box to do builds on.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Tuesday 13 March 2001 08:45, Michael Rauch wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:56:03PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 	Ah, thanks. Are there any plans for providing versions for
> > > 	other NetBSD ports (powerpc springs to mind immediately :).
> > No ongoing work that I am aware of. OpenOffice is dependent on both OS and
> > architecture, so it won't compile out-of-the-box for another NetBSD port.
> > However, the changes for architectures that are supported for another OS
> > (x86, powerpc) should be minimal (mainly a few #ifdef's in the code and in
> > the makefiles).
> >
> > > 	Are you going to be involved in OpenOffice for NetBSD on an
> > > 	ongoing basis?
> > I hope so.
> >
> >
> > Michael
> >
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