[gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc

[gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc

[Stefán István]

Hello!
What is the reason of the lack of binary packages of openoffice and firefox 
for ppc based machines?
Compiling oo takes a very long time, and on my machine it even ends with a 
segmentation fault, so I couldn't install oo at all. In other ppc based 
distroes I saw binary oo packages.


Thanks,
Istvan

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Re: [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc

[Dale]

Stefán István wrote:
> Hello!
> What is the reason of the lack of binary packages of openoffice and firefox 
> for ppc based machines?
> Compiling oo takes a very long time, and on my machine it even ends with a 
> segmentation fault, so I couldn't install oo at all. In other ppc based 
> distroes I saw binary oo packages.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Istvan
> 

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a binary or not.  May be worth looking into though.

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html

Hope that will help.  That is a ugly beast to compile.  It is a great
test of your hardware though.  If it is weak, OOo compiles will break
it.  :-(

Dale

:-)  :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc

[Stefán István]

kedd 24 október 2006 13.59 dátummal Dale ezt írta:
> Stefán István wrote:
> > Hello!
> > What is the reason of the lack of binary packages of openoffice and 
firefox 
> > for ppc based machines?
> > Compiling oo takes a very long time, and on my machine it even ends with a 
> > segmentation fault, so I couldn't install oo at all. In other ppc based 
> > distroes I saw binary oo packages.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Istvan
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a binary or not.  May be worth looking into though.
> 
> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html
> 
> Hope that will help.  That is a ugly beast to compile.  It is a great
> test of your hardware though.  If it is weak, OOo compiles will break
> it.  :-(

Thanks for the reply.
The site you linked contains binary for macos, but I would like to use oo 
under Gentoo. My machine is even not a mac, but a pegasos (maybe someone 
heard about it :) ).
It is possible that my hardware is weak for compiling oo, because I have only 
256M memory.
What is the hardware requirements of the oo compilation?


Thanks,
Istvan

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Re: [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc

[Dale]

Stefán István wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> The site you linked contains binary for macos, but I would like to use oo 
> under Gentoo. My machine is even not a mac, but a pegasos (maybe someone 
> heard about it :) ).
> It is possible that my hardware is weak for compiling oo, because I have only 
> 256M memory.
> What is the hardware requirements of the oo compilation?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Istvan
> 


I read on there somewhere that 256MBs of ram and about 8GBs of drive
space is the minimum.  Me, go to single user or something and let it
have all it can get.  May not help with your error though.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:27:01 +0200, Stefán István wrote:

> What is the reason of the lack of binary packages of openoffice and
> firefox for ppc based machines?

Because the projects don't supply binary PPC packages.

Gentoo works with upstream packages and, with the exception of the GRP
and Stage 3 packages for initial installation, does not provide binaries
unless they come fro upstream.

I've been compiling OOo for PPC since 1.1.4, and like you, cannot install
2.0.4 yet. There are some threads on Bugzilla about the various problems
compiling OOo.

I'd use KOffice but I need to be able to save in Word and Excel formats.


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Neil Bothwick

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