Re: OpenOffice support for AIX

We  are working on a port of OpenOffice to AIX at the moment. I was wonderi=
ng
if anyone knew of other people that are also working on this. It's been
quite a bit of effort so far but we are making progress. We would be happy
to work with some others to speed the work up if possible.=20



Michael Stahl-3 wrote:
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> hi Sumik,
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> On 26/03/2010 10:58, Sumik Basu wrote:
>>  Hi Team,
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>>  For our project purpose we need to run OpenOffice in AIX environment.
>>  Please let us know is there any support for OpenOffice in AIX platform.
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> from the content of your message and the lack of replies it looks like yo=
u
> just volunteered to port OOo to AIX  :)
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> there are actually various references to AIX in the code base:
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> http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/Current%20(trunk)/tools/=
inc/tools/solar.h#312
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> here the platform UNXAIXP is defined, which is presumably AIX on PPC, wit=
h
> X11.
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> so at one time someone was working on a port.
> but probably that was a very long time ago, maybe even in the nineties.
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> i guess if you really want to do a port, it may be a good idea to use GCC
> as the C++ compiler instead of whatever half-baked C++ implementation IBM
> ships, because the reasonable working assumption is that all C++
> implementations are broken, which implies that GCC is broken in some ways
> too, but the current OOo code base is already adapted to the ways in whic=
h
> GCC 4.x is broken, which is not true for the IBM compiler.
> (iirc the lone maintainer of our OS/2 port also chose to use GCC instead
> of the IBM compiler; presumably for good reasons)
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> regards,
>  michael
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