Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-25 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi
   Edit  openoffice.org-2.0.3/debian/rules and there is some variable
build_amd64???=n that should be y
I only started building it seemed to work properly after that change.

Hope it helps
Gudjon

Þann Mánudagur 24. júlí 2006 23:13 skrifaði Emmanuel Fleury:
 Hi,

 A J Stiles wrote:
  I do not *want* pre-built .debs.  What I specifically want is to compile
  the whole thing from source on my own machine.

 Do the following:

 1) Get the sources:
   apt-get source openoffice.org

 2) Get the packages needed to compile it:
   su -c 'apt-get build-dep openoffice.org'

 3) Go in the directory:
   cd openoffice.org-2.0.3

 4) Build-it:
   dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

 ...

 Unfortunately, it doesn't work. :-/

 I get a lot of errors:

 ...
 dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-cy in control file
 but not in files list
 dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-ko in control file
 but not in files list
 dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-fr in control file
 but not in files list
 dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-hr in control file
 but not in files list
 dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-ar in control file
 but not in files list
 dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-ja in control file
 but not in files list
 dpkg-genchanges: not including original source code in upload
 dpkg-buildpackage: binary and diff upload (original source NOT included)

 If you find the way to get through this tell me, because I also would
 like to compile it. :)

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-25 Thread Giacomo Mulas

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, sigi wrote:


I'm using this package since it's released, and had only very few
crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
others it has no problem.

Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.


Well, I did experience problems on a sarge box, related to java (on which
openoffice heavily relies). The problem persisted with the java runtime
environments from sun, ibm, blackdown, and apparently was simply due to java
triggering a bug in the libfreetype packaged in sarge. I compiled the sid
libfreetype6 package from source on sarge, installed it and the problem
disappeared completely, with no ill effects apparently. Since this appeared
to be a difficult to track problem, I failed to report it, but here it is. I
could reproduce it consistently by running through the wizard to produce a
fax template.

Bye
Giacomo

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-25 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Hi,

Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote:
 
Edit  openoffice.org-2.0.3/debian/rules and there is some variable
 build_amd64???=n that should be y
 I only started building it seemed to work properly after that change.

This is right. It works... until some error occurs. :-/

So here is the way to make it works:

1) Get the source from the Debian repository
 apt-get source openoffice.org

2) Get the package needed to compile this (as root)
 su -c 'apt-get build-dep openoffice.org'

3) Move to the build directory
 cd openoffice-*

4) Ask to build the amd64 arch packages
   In debian/rules change the 'BUILD_AMD64=n' in 'BUILD_AMD64=y'.

5) Build the package (this might take quite a while)
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc


Then, I hit an error in cpp_uno. Briefly, it seems that the bridge
interface has changed and this piece of code hasn't been updated:

bridges::cpp_uno::shared::UnoInterfaceProxy::dispatch(uno_Interface*,
const typelib_TypeDescription*, void*, void**, uno_Any**)' member
function declared in class 'bridges::cpp_uno::shared::UnoInterfaceProxy'
dmake:  Error code 1, while making

==[Complete error log]=

g++ -Wreturn-type -fmessage-length=0 -c -I.  -I. -I../inc -I../../../inc
-I../../../unx/inc -I../../../unxlngx6.pro/inc -I.
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/solver/680/unxlngx6.pro/inc/stl
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/solver/680/unxlngx6.pro/inc/external
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/solver/680/unxlngx6.pro/inc
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/solenv/unxlngx6/inc
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/solenv/inc
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/res
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/stlport/stlport
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/stlport/include/stlport
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/stlport/include/stlport
-I/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/solenv/inc/Xp31
-INO_JAVA_HOME/include -INO_JAVA_HOME/include/linux
-INO_JAVA_HOME/include/native_threads/include -I/usr/include -I.
-I../../../res -I. -O0   -DLEAK_STATIC_DATA -pipe
-Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -fno-use-cxa-atexit -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
-g1 -fexceptions -fno-enforce-eh-specs   -fpic -DLINUX -DUNX -DVCL -DGCC
-DC341 -DX86_64 -DCVER=C341 -D_USE_NAMESPACE -DNPTL -DGLIBC=2 -DX86_64
-D_PTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DNEW_SOLAR -D_USE_NAMESPACE=1
-DSTLPORT_VERSION=400 -DHAVE_GCC_VISIBILITY_FEATURE -D__DMAKE -DUNIX
-DCPPU_ENV=gcc3
-DGXX_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../include/c++/4.1.2
-DSUPD=680 -DPRODUCT -DNDEBUG -DPRODUCT_FULL -DOSL_DEBUG_LEVEL=0
-DEXCEPTIONS_ON -DCUI -DOOC680=OOC680   -DSHAREDLIB -D_DLL_
-DMULTITHREAD  -o ../../../unxlngx6.pro/slo/uno2cpp.o
/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_x86-64/uno2cpp.cxx
/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_x86-64/uno2cpp.cxx:
In function 'void invoke_copy_to_stack(sal_uInt64*, char*, sal_uInt64*,
sal_uInt64*, double*)':
/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_x86-64/uno2cpp.cxx:122:
warning: converting to 'long unsigned int' from 'double'
/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_x86-64/uno2cpp.cxx:
At global scope:
/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_x86-64/uno2cpp.cxx:519:
error: no 'void
bridges::cpp_uno::shared::UnoInterfaceProxy::dispatch(uno_Interface*,
const typelib_TypeDescription*, void*, void**, uno_Any**)' member
function declared in class 'bridges::cpp_uno::shared::UnoInterfaceProxy'
dmake:  Error code 1, while making '../../../unxlngx6.pro/slo/uno2cpp.obj'
'---* tg_merge.mk *---'
dmake:  Error code 255, while making 'do_it_noopt'
'---* tg_merge.mk *---'

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making
/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build/build/ooc680-m7/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_x86-64
make[1]: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/openoffice.org-2.0.3/ooo-build'
make: *** [debian/stampdir/build] Error 2

===

Moreover, when using the packages from
http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.0.3/amd64/. Saving seems
to be ok but restoring gives:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ooimpress test.odp
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x010855f0 ***

Meaning that some pointer address has been lost (probably because of
some abusive cast).

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-24 Thread Emmanuel Fleury
Hi,

A J Stiles wrote:
 
 I do not *want* pre-built .debs.  What I specifically want is to compile the 
 whole thing from source on my own machine.

Do the following:

1) Get the sources:
apt-get source openoffice.org

2) Get the packages needed to compile it:
su -c 'apt-get build-dep openoffice.org'

3) Go in the directory:
cd openoffice.org-2.0.3

4) Build-it:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

...

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. :-/

I get a lot of errors:

...
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-cy in control file
but not in files list
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-ko in control file
but not in files list
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-fr in control file
but not in files list
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-hr in control file
but not in files list
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-ar in control file
but not in files list
dpkg-genchanges: warning: package openoffice.org-l10n-ja in control file
but not in files list
dpkg-genchanges: not including original source code in upload
dpkg-buildpackage: binary and diff upload (original source NOT included)

If you find the way to get through this tell me, because I also would
like to compile it. :)

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:57:07PM +0100, Adam Stiles wrote:
 On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote:
  I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and had
  only very few 
  crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
  others it has no problem.
 
  Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
  Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.
 
 Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  I'm running 
 64-bit Sid.

On any debian mirror.  It's just not building the .debs for amd64
yet until the maintainer thinks it's ready.  He keeps the .debs
on http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org instead.  It
requires some minor changes to the build scripts to build it
yourself.

Note that upstream still thinks that the 64 bit version is still
alpha quality.  If it's saying saving doesn't work, it might mean
that if you save it, and you try to open it with an other (32
bit) version, it doesn't work.  I kow that didn't use to work,
not sure of how much has been fixed.

In short, don't use a 64 bit version of it, if you can't handle
alpha qualitity software.  If you want something that should
work, wait untils it's properly in the archive.


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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-21 Thread A J Stiles
On Thursday 20 July 2006 21:39, sigi wrote:
   Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?
   I'm running 64-bit Sid.

 Read the above mails again, and you will find a working link directly to
 the built debs... ;)

 Download them, install them, and enjoy.

I do not *want* pre-built .debs.  What I specifically want is to compile the 
whole thing from source on my own machine.

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-21 Thread sigi
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:40:56AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote:
 On Thursday 20 July 2006 21:39, sigi wrote:
Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?
I'm running 64-bit Sid.
 
  Read the above mails again, and you will find a working link directly to
  the built debs... ;)
 
  Download them, install them, and enjoy.
 
 I do not *want* pre-built .debs.  What I specifically want is to compile the 
 whole thing from source on my own machine.

OK. But you never mentioned that...sorry.

sigi


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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread Joost Witteveen
Je 2006/07/20(4)/14:07, Joost Witteveen skribis:
 I've been using a 64 bit OOo for a couple weeks now, and have been quite
 pleased with it.  There's a working AMD64 port here:
 
 http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.0.3/amd64/

That's the 2.0.3-1 version, released 2006-07-01, right? That must
be the same version announced here: http://openoffice.debian.net/
where it's described as: Note that they sttill are not usable; 
for example saving doesn't work...
Now, my uses of OO usually don't include saving anything, but I do
imagine that to be important for some people.

(I run debian-amd64 on a server, where I have no need for OO, so I
haven't tried it myself). 


Or does saving generally work, except for some exotic file formats like .doc?

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread sigi
Hi, 

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:
 Je 2006/07/20(4)/14:07, Joost Witteveen skribis:
  I've been using a 64 bit OOo for a couple weeks now, and have been quite
  pleased with it.  There's a working AMD64 port here:
  
  http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.0.3/amd64/
 
 That's the 2.0.3-1 version, released 2006-07-01, right? That must
 be the same version announced here: http://openoffice.debian.net/
 where it's described as: Note that they sttill are not usable; 
 for example saving doesn't work...
 Now, my uses of OO usually don't include saving anything, but I do
 imagine that to be important for some people.
 
 (I run debian-amd64 on a server, where I have no need for OO, so I
 haven't tried it myself). 
 
 
 Or does saving generally work, except for some exotic file formats like .doc?

I'm using this package since it's released, and had only very few 
crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some 
others it has no problem. 

Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files. 
Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well. 

sigi.


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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread Adam Stiles
On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote:
 I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and had
 only very few 
 crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
 others it has no problem.

 Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
 Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.

Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  I'm running 
64-bit Sid.

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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread sigi
Hi,

  On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote:
   Je 2006/07/20(4)/14:07, Joost Witteveen skribis:
I've been using a 64 bit OOo for a couple weeks now, and have been 
quite
pleased with it.  There's a working AMD64 port here:
   
http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.0.3/amd64/
  
   That's the 2.0.3-1 version, released 2006-07-01, right? That must
   be the same version announced here: http://openoffice.debian.net/
   where it's described as: Note that they sttill are not usable;
   for example saving doesn't work...
   Now, my uses of OO usually don't include saving anything, but I do
   imagine that to be important for some people.
  
   (I run debian-amd64 on a server, where I have no need for OO, so I
   haven't tried it myself).
  
  
   Or does saving generally work, except for some exotic file formats 
   like .doc?
  
  I'm using this package since it's released, and had only very few
  crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with 
  some others it has no problem.
   
  Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
  Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.
  
  Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  
  I'm running 64-bit Sid.
 
Read the above mails again, and you will find a working link directly to 
the built debs... ;)

Download them, install them, and enjoy.

sigi.


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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread sigi
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
 Adam Stiles wrote:
 On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote:
   
 I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and 
 had
 only very few 
 crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
 others it has no problem.
 
 Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
 Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.
 
 
 Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  I'm 
 running 64-bit Sid.
 
   
 Just apt-get install openoffice.org

Since when are the debs for amd64 in the official repositories? 
I can't find them. 
If you wanted to give a hint to download the source-files, 
your command is wrong: apt-get source package-name 
would be right, imho.

sigi.


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Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Hi
   Go to  http://openoffice.debian.net/ and there you will find all 
information but I recommend setting up a chroot for openoffice. I have both 
chroot and amd64 version of openoffice and the 64 bit crashes sometimes when 
opening  doc files. But version 2.0.3 is better than 2.0.2.

/Gudjon

Þann Fimmtudagur 20. júlí 2006 23:15 skrifaði sigi:
 On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
  Adam Stiles wrote:
  On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote:
  I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and
  had
  only very few
  crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
  others it has no problem.
  
  Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
  Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.
  
  Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  I'm
  running 64-bit Sid.
 
  Just apt-get install openoffice.org

 Since when are the debs for amd64 in the official repositories?
 I can't find them.
 If you wanted to give a hint to download the source-files,
 your command is wrong: apt-get source package-name
 would be right, imho.

 sigi.



Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet




sigi wrote:

  On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
  
  
Adam Stiles wrote:


  On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote:
 
  
  
I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and 
had
only very few 
crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
others it has no problem.

Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.
   

  
  Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  I'm 
running 64-bit Sid.

 
  

Just apt-get install openoffice.org

  
  
Since when are the debs for amd64 in the official repositories? 
I can't find them. 
If you wanted to give a hint to download the source-files, 
your command is wrong: apt-get source package-name 
would be right, imho.

sigi.


  

If you go to there:
http://openoffice.debian.net/install.html
you will get the following information, and it worked for me:
Installing OpenOffice.org
for debian is very easy with apt-get/dselect or
dpkg.

1.Installing OpenOffice.org with apt-get.

If you are using debian-unstable (aka sid), debian-testing (aka
etch) or
debian-stable (aka sarge) you do not need to change /etc/apt/sources.list.
If you are using
debian-oldstable (aka Woody or Debian 3.0r4), you have to choose a
mirror of our
debian-packages-mirrors from here and put it
in your
/etc/apt/sources.list..

Ok, we will go ahead with the installation of OpenOffice.org.
Type apt-get update ; apt-get install openoffice.org.
You can do apt-get install openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin
openoffice.org-l10n-en too, this will work! Choose
openoffice.org-l10n-$CC
for your CountryCode, that you want.
OpenOffice.org is now already installed in the debian-package, so, the
only
thing you need to do is just type openoffice into a shell
or
click on the icons at your WindowManager.
Thierry





Re: Broken applications: Openoffice on AMD64

2006-07-20 Thread Gudjon I. Gudjonsson
Þann Fimmtudagur 20. júlí 2006 23:15 skrifaði sigi:
 On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:50:13PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
  Adam Stiles wrote:
  On Thursday 20 July 2006 14:47, sigi wrote:
  I'm using this [64-bit OpenOffice.org] package since it's released, and
  had
  only very few
  crashes. OOo only crashes while opening some MS-word files - with some
  others it has no problem.
  
  Saving documents failed never here - neither on .odt nor .doc-files.
  Mostly I use OOo-writer - and that package seems to work very well.
  
  Where can I get the .dsc, .diff and .tar.gz files to build this?  I'm
  running 64-bit Sid.
 
  Just apt-get install openoffice.org

 Since when are the debs for amd64 in the official repositories?
 I can't find them.
 If you wanted to give a hint to download the source-files,
 your command is wrong: apt-get source package-name
 would be right, imho.

 sigi.
Sorry I forgot to read the whole thread before posting my last email:) The 
source files are in the official repositories although the amd64 files are 
not.
Add
deb-src ...
into the sources.list file and then type
apt-src install openoffice.org
but I did not find out how to compile it
fakeroot debian/rules binary did not work and neither did pdebuild. I would 
like to know how to build it even if I am not going to.

Hope it helps and I'm not off topic
Gudjon