Re: Building OpenOffice.org on PPC

Martin Dreier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to build OO.org on my Apple PowerBook (1.5 GHz, 512 MB  
> RAM, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)). dmake exited with the following errors:
>
> (start of extract)
>
> mkdir: ./unxmacxp.pro/misc/build/libsndfile-1.0.9/: File exists
> cd ./unxmacxp.pro/misc/build/libsndfile-1.0.9/ && ./configure --with- 
> pic LDFLAGS=-Wl,-noinhibit-exec && touch so_configured_sndfile
> checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0
> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0
> checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... no
> checking for awk... awk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for autogen... no
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:  
> C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> dmake:  Error code 77, while making './unxmacxp.pro/misc/build/ 
> so_configured_sndfile'
> '---* tg_merge.mk *---'
>
> ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /Users/Martin/680_m89/build/ 
> sndfile
> dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'build_all'
> '---* tg_merge.mk *---'
>
> (end of ectract)
>
> As I have no experience with compiling, I have no idea how to resolve  
> this problem. Any help would be great.
>
> Martin
>
> P.S: I have been using ccache, might this be part of the problem?
>
Try getting a more current version.  You have a very old release.  I 
would try getting src680_m109.

Also, if you are trying to build on Tiger, run the following command to 
set gcc to version 3.3:

sudo gcc_select 3.3

James McKenzie