Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:20:05 -0500 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>, Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice2.0 64Bit ready? Message-ID: <20050810162005.GA67793@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <20050810160533.GB4434@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <42ECB269.4030206@mail.uni-mainz.de> <20050805225309.GA99941@luke.immure.com> <20050810034707.GA49313@dragon.NUXI.org> <200508100913.36763.andy@athame.co.uk> <20050810115100.GA66492@luke.immure.com> <20050810160533.GB4434@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:05:34AM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:51:00AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:13:33AM +0300, Andy Fawcett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 06:47, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:53:09PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:28:40AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 01:13:45PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Sirs. > > > > > > > I do not follow up everything written herein, so my question may > > > > > > > sound stupid. > > > > > > > On my FreeBSD 6.0 AMD64 box I run a 'clean' 64 Bit FreeBSD 6.0 (no > > > > > > > 32Bit compatibility). I want to use OpenOffice from time to time > > > > > > > reading Word or Excel documents. Can we compile and run OO 2.0 > > > > > > > without 32 Bit compatibility enabled? I know this implies 64Bit clean > > > > > > > code, so the major question would be whether OO 2 is 64 Bit clean or > > > > > > > not. > > > > > > > > > > > > No OOo isn't 64-bit clean. > > > > > > > > > > Is it possible to build and run a 32-bit version of OOo on AMD64? > > > > > > > > Build, no. Run should be possible. Someone really needs to sit down and > > > > wrap their heads around the Ports Collection and make it so that we can > > > > install 32-bit i386 packages (actually just the .so's) on FreeBSD/AMD64. > > > > > > I actually tried this just the other day, using pkg_add to install the 32bit > > > OOo. There were no errors during the pkg_add, but when I try to configure: > > > > > > $ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.5/setup > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsal.so.3" not found, required by > > > "javaldx" > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsb645fi.so" not found, required by > > > "setup.bin" > > > > > > I haven't really had time to investigate this further though. > > > > I had the same problem when I tried to run a 32bit version of OOo on my > > AMD64 system; and like you, haven't had a chance to persue it yet. > > I'm running the 32 bit Linux version from SuSE 9.3 under emulation on > my amd64 box and its working quite well, so there is always that option. I have not been so fortunate there either. I don't recall which Linux version I tried, but whichever it was it wasn't much better. It would start up okay but crashed easily. I may try that again, but I really would prefer a native FreeBSD version (either 32 or 64 bit, doesn't really matter to me). Bob > > -- > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org -- Bob Willcox The early bird who catches the worm works for someone bob@immure.com who comes in late and owns the worm farm. Austin, TX -- Travis McGee
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