Re: OpenOffice 2 status of amd64 linux port.

Hi Joel,

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:

> One of the key issues that I have never received an adequate reply to
> from previous submissions is the status and or discussion of a native
> amd64 port for linux.

So, I am one of the people working on the AMD64 port.  It is in
progress, and you can see all the patches in ooo-build
(http://www.go-oo.org/).  They are based on a snapshot of ooo64bit02 child
workspace; the new patches are committed back there, filed in IssuedZilla,
or are already integrated.

64bit OOo can currently start, you can write there, you can open a Word
document, but not an OOo document; see

  http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2005-06-19T13_37_07.html

for more.  There is also a link to installation set there.

What has to be done?

- AMD64 bridge must be finished.  It more or less works, but there are
  issues that do not show during normal OOo operation, only in a
  testsuite.  I'm currently fixing them.
- Fix registration of Java and Python modules.  I'm building --without-java
  ATM and without Python.
- Fix smaller bugs that appear here and there.
- Get it all to the OOo cvs HEAD.

You can follow the progress in Pavel Janik's and my blogs:

  http://blog.janik.cz/
  http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/blog/

Regards,
Jan