On 15.07.2011 05:20, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
It seems like the first thing for you or someone working with you to
do is find a way to build a release on Solaris from the source code.
Since 3.3.0 was built for both Solaris x86 and Sparc, you should be
able to determine what it takes for that distribution (with
integration of all of the localizations).
The distributions and the source code is available
at<http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/stable/3.3.0/>.
Look at the src_* files at the end. Notice the significant size of
the source code.
Rebuilding an existing stable build is the easiest way to confirm
that you have it working.
actually usually it's a better idea to build the current development
version; especially since in contrast to OOo 3.3 we now have 2 build
systems (because we're in the middle of the migration), you really want
to know that _both_ work for your platform.
You'll need to roam around the Developers information, including
information about the build
environment:<http://tools.openoffice.org/build_env.html>. (I can't
vouch for how current any of this is.)
don't trust anything on tools.openoffice.org; it's generally out of
date; the Wiki tends to have more current stuff, look at the Building
Guide (see Mathias' mail).
lastly, let me express my puzzlement at the surprising popularity of our
Solaris port :)
if there are really people who want to maintain that, then i'd suggest
looking into building it with GCC instead of SunStudio, which is not
currently possible, but would probably ease the maintenance burden in
the long run.
regards,
michael
