[oi-dev] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice
Hi All, http://alasdairrr.tumblr.com/post/10404734792/libreoffice We've been joined by a LibreOffice developer in #oi-dev, who is willing to help us with a port of LibreOffice to OpenIndiana. Unfortunately all the usual suspects who might work on this are tied up - so I'm mailing the lists to find out if anyone might be interested in collaborating with us on this? Ideally someone who steps forward should know their way around a Makefile pretty well and have ported software to Solaris before - LibreOffice is pretty big. Getting LibreOffice into OI would be a big win - it's an often requested package. Cheers, Alasdair ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:28:17PM -0400, Philip J. Robar wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi All, http://alasdairrr.tumblr.com/post/10404734792/libreoffice We've been joined by a LibreOffice developer in #oi-dev, who is willing to help us with a port of LibreOffice to OpenIndiana. Unfortunately all the usual suspects who might work on this are tied up - so I'm mailing the lists to find out if anyone might be interested in collaborating with us on this? Ideally someone who steps forward should know their way around a Makefile pretty well and have ported software to Solaris before - LibreOffice is pretty big. Getting LibreOffice into OI would be a big win - it's an often requested package. I used to do this type of thing all of the time for my group’s local server when I was at Sun so I can probably help*. However, when I found the source tar balls at LibreOffice’s site I was unmoved by the lack of documentation. But then, I found this site: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ — which seems to be the place to get stated, yes? Since it already builds on numerous UNIX™ and UNIX like systems I presume that the port ought to be pretty straight forward. Is there anything in particular that I need to know about before I get started? Cool. Were on IRC (#oi-dev on FreeNode) where we can help you get started. I am not sure what Alasdair had in mind, but I guess this wiki page would be a good start: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-build Jeff. -- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 00:18 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Hi Philip, Many thanks for getting in touch! On 20 Sep 2011, at 22:28, Philip J. Robar wrote: snip I used to do this type of thing all of the time for my group’s local server when I was at Sun so I can probably help*. However, when I found the source tar balls at LibreOffice’s site I was unmoved by the lack of documentation. But then, I found this site: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ — which seems to be the place to get stated, yes? Fantastic :-) Yes, LibreOffice needs work in this area - it's going to be a bit of a nightmare to build. But that certainly looks like a good place to start. Since it already builds on numerous UNIX™ and UNIX like systems I presume that the port ought to be pretty straight forward. Is there anything in particular that I need to know about before I get started? LibreOffice unfortunately has a really ugly compiler/platform specific ABI: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/bridges/source/cpp_uno On Linux/BSD it expects gcc and on Solaris it expects Sun Studio. So for now the LibreOffice developers are recommending we use Sun Studio to build it, although they would welcome support for gcc on Solaris, but it would require someone with assembly skills. Probably not important at the moment. Because LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice you'd think it would build out of the box, but unfortunately the fork was done by a consortium of Linux distributions who have taken an axe to the core of it and I can't say for sure what issues you're likely to encounter, but they have said they will accept patches upstream to fix build issues on other platforms. I'd recommend dropping by IRC if you can, to #oi-dev on irc.freenode.net - we have someone from the LibreOffice development team in there (his nickname is ftigeot) who knows about the build system and can offer help/pointers if needed. There is also #libreoffice-dev Cheers, Alasdair ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev Awesome! Be great to have LibreOffice on OI, if only to snub Oracle :-P Last I poked around, the jury was still out on LibreOffice vs. Apache's incarnation of OpenOffice as preferred office suite on OI. But I've been being a fun hog and away from the 'puter for much of the summer - has OI subsequently developed a consensus? -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice
Awesome! Be great to have LibreOffice on OI, if only to snub Oracle :-P Quite :-) Last I poked around, the jury was still out on LibreOffice vs. Apache's incarnation of OpenOffice as preferred office suite on OI. But I've been being a fun hog and away from the 'puter for much of the summer - has OI subsequently developed a consensus? 00:43 -!- Irssi: #openoffice: Total of 3 nicks [0 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 3 normal] 00:43 -!- Irssi: #libreoffice: Total of 79 nicks [7 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 72 normal I think LibreOffice has gotten the mindshare - happy to be corrected if thats not the case. I don't even mind if we ship both, but I think LibreOffice is the logical choice. Cheers, Alasdair ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 00:44 +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: Awesome! Be great to have LibreOffice on OI, if only to snub Oracle :-P Quite :-) Last I poked around, the jury was still out on LibreOffice vs. Apache's incarnation of OpenOffice as preferred office suite on OI. But I've been being a fun hog and away from the 'puter for much of the summer - has OI subsequently developed a consensus? 00:43 -!- Irssi: #openoffice: Total of 3 nicks [0 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 3 normal] 00:43 -!- Irssi: #libreoffice: Total of 79 nicks [7 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 72 normal I think LibreOffice has gotten the mindshare - happy to be corrected if thats not the case. I don't even mind if we ship both, but I think LibreOffice is the logical choice. Cheers, Alasdair Rock On! If only because you're cool enough to be using Irssi :) -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Re: [oi-dev] Request for volunteers: Building LibreOffice
I'm pretty sure I accidentally downloaded Solaris Studio 12.1 for SPARC the other day... ___ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
