From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GcL14-0008S5-VQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:04:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9OC05OL019575; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:00:05 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9OBvfKe021351 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:57:43 GMT Received: from [65.136.101.151] (0-1pool101-151.nas1.greenwood1.ms.us.da.qwest.net [65.136.101.151]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9OBwBRg023743 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:58:12 -0500 Message-ID: <453E000D.5050709@exceedtech.net> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:59:09 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061016 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lack of openoffice and firefox binary for ppc References: <200610241327.02015.stefi@geohidroterv.hu> In-Reply-To: <200610241327.02015.stefi@geohidroterv.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9OC05On019575 X-Archives-Salt: 04232ace-1f4b-4054-836f-590b26b0612b X-Archives-Hash: 127be0534c61025b0b55450eea2eb7a5 Stef=E1n Istv=E1n wrote: > Hello! > What is the reason of the lack of binary packages of openoffice and fir= efox=20 > for ppc based machines? > Compiling oo takes a very long time, and on my machine it even ends wit= h a=20 > segmentation fault, so I couldn't install oo at all. In other ppc based= =20 > distroes I saw binary oo packages. >=20 >=20 > Thanks, > Istvan >=20 Hi, I'm not sure if this is a binary or not. May be worth looking into thoug= h. 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 :-) :-) --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list