Re: Bug#1122336: libreoffice: Smoketest fails on hppa and powerpc due to missing soffice.sh

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:35:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc,gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k
Message-ID <d95b7b4263333274970f3e0b736b3c6f54e6bffa.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hello,

On Thu, 2025-12-11 at 07:15 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> (experimental_powerpc-dchroot)rene@perotto:~/libreoffice-26.2.0~beta1$ di=
ff -u instdir/program/soffice.old instdir/program/soffice
> --- instdir/program/soffice.old 2025-12-11 01:55:33.611241288 +0000
> +++ instdir/program/soffice=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A02025-12-11 06:08:10.728584=
683 +0000
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>  =C2=A0# uncomment line below if you encounter problems starting soffice =
on your system
>  =C2=A0# SAL_NO_XINITTHREADS=3Dtrue; export SAL_NO_XINITTHREADS
>=20
> -export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=3D6
> +#@JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE_EXPORT@
>=20
>  =C2=A0# resolve installation directory
>  =C2=A0sd_cwd=3D$(pwd)
>=20
> which is powerpc-specific, indeed. From configure.ac:
>=20
> JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=3D""
> if test "$_os" =3D "Linux" -a "$host_cpu" =3D "powerpc"; then
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 # IBMs JDK needs this...
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=3D6
>  =C2=A0 =C2=A0 export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE
> fi
> AC_SUBST([JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE])
>=20
> So it means hppa is something different.

Whether it sets "export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=3D6" or not in the script shoul=
dn't make any
difference unless I'm missing something. This just seems to be an environme=
nt variable
that is required when using a JDK provided by IBM but should be safe to ign=
ore otherwise.

Adrian

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