Re: More on the OO 64-bit source

Jim, list:

A few years ago  thought I would set aside an evening and build OO on my
then-new used XP1000.  Hahahaha! The stopper for me at the time was not bei=
ng
able to complete the dependencies.  IIRC it required the Java environment at
the time, this was before the alternatives to official Java were developed.

I probably gave up too easy.

jn



---------- Original Message -----------
From: Jim McCarthy <[email protected]>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:30:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: More on the OO 64-bit source

> Note there is also an officially supported Itanium 64-bit (ia64) =

> release of the latest OpenOffice. =A0 I do not have much depth of C-
> programming experience myself, but one of the people working on =

> Itanium support + development of the Red-Hat-based "Scientific Linux =

> CERN" Linux OS once mentioned to me that ia64 was a more "stringent" =

> (or strict) 64-bit implementation than 64-bit x86.=A0 His experience =

> was such that source code upgraded from 32-bit x86 to 64-bit x86 was =

> not necessarily guaranteed to be up-to-snuff for building "as is" on =

> ia64 -- i.e., some additional 64-bit upgrades to the source code are =

> frequently required in order to build the code successfully on =

> ia64.=A0=A0 Conversely 32-bit source code upgraded to adhere to the =

> stricter 64-bit demands for building on ia64 were then fine building =

> "as is" on 64-bit x86.
> =

> I can't say whether this is indeed true, or not -- and if true,
>  whether the existence of an Itanium release of OpenOffice has =

> anything to do with getting those same source codes to build =

> successfully on 64-bit Alpha platforms -- but I thought it was an =

> interesting claim that one could apparently get away with certain =

> legacy 32-bit programming practices on 64-bit x86 that were strictly =

> forbidden on ia64.
> =

> -- Jim
> =A0
> =

> --- On Thu, 10/28/10, Dialup Jon Norstog <[email protected]> wrote:
> =

> From: Dialup Jon Norstog <[email protected]>
> Subject: More on the OO 64-bit source
> To: "Linux on Alpha processors" <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010, 9:55 AM
> =

> To the list:
> =

> here is the port maintainer's clarification on 64-bit source code.
> =

> **********************************************************
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 08:52 -0600, Jon Norstog wrote:
> > Thanks for getting back to me, Caolan.=A0 So that means the 64-bit X-86=
=A0 =

> > source is Alpha-friendly?
> =

> In theory at least it should build on Alpha. I ported the core bit,
>  the uno bridge, to Alpha some time ago. Its not like it gets built =

> every day so parts mightn't work. Various workarouns like
> =

> configuring --with-system-python and/or --with-system-mozilla etc to =

> avoid building the in-tree copies and use the copy already installed =

> might be helpful to avoid any gotchas with those.
> =

> C.
> =

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