On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: > Eric, > > It depends on how you define "current." Red Hat has put some updates out > there for their Linux/390 platforms, but not as many has they have for their > Intel ones. There was a thread a little while back about the lack of > security updates for their Linux/390 platforms. > > Since they do put out the SRPMs (source RPMs), you can download those and > build the binary for installation, but that can be, ummm, a chore, and it > certainly chews up CPU time for packages of any size. (I'm currently in the > process of re-building glibc 2.2.5, and it's going on 24 hours of wall clock > time. Open Office took me about a _month_, on a much bigger machine that > this one.)
Hello Mark, OpenOffice is one of the very few rpms within Red Hat Linux that has not yet mainframe patches merged in. If you have patches for the current rpm in rawhide, I'll try to get OO included for rawhide binary rpms. ;-) I think we had OO running internally within RH, but not merged these things into our official development sources AFAIK. Will check on this next week... Next would then be to look at startup times for OO and how much time you can save by using the nice prelinking framework that Jakub Jelinek has put together, including the mainframe arch. greetings, Florian La Roche
