Announcing: PPC Linux Version of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1

[Kevin B.Hendricks]

Hi Ben,

The old JDK is the one I use with OOo.  I know that work is still 
ongoing at Blackdown for PPC Linux since Sun expressed some interest in 
it recently (but not enough to actually find me to do it) so I have 
pretty much given up on it.  Frankly I use the IBM jdk 1.4.1 for almost 
everything.  Unfortunately, the damn OOo source code requires a "Sun" 
style JDK layout.

I recently had to fix OOo so it would work on the MacOSX JDK and now 
that I am familiar with the code I can do the same for IBM's JDK.

They are actually very very close.  In fact, you can actually use 
symlinks to fool OOo to accept the IBM JDK and then go ahead and use 
it.

Once I reboot into PPC Linux I will dig up what symlinks I added and 
send them to you and you can use them temporarily until I get the 
source changes in the OOo tree.

Kevin


On Mar 30, 2004, at 6:09 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 02:28, Kevin B.Hendricks wrote:
>> FYI only,
>>
>> OpenOffice.org announces OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 for PPC Linux is now
>> available on the StarDiv and YellowDog Linux Mirrors and selected 
>> other
>> locations.
>>
>> http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html
>>
>> This contributed build was made on an almost stock YDL 3.0 machine and
>> therefore should run on any PPC Linux system using glibc 2.3.2.  The
>> Blackdown JDK is also recommended for full use.
>
> Hi Kevin !
>
> Is there a recent Blackdown JDK for PPC, or are we still stuck at 1.3 ?
>
> Does it have a working JIT nowadays ?
>
> I've been using the IBM one lately for my (few) Java needs...
>
> Ben.
>
>