OpenOffice, 5.3 Release, AMD64: is it true there's no love?

Lars Tunkrans lars.tunkrans at bredband.net
Fri Feb 25 19:06:05 GMT 2005


João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
> Francois Tigeot wrote:
> 
>> I'm afraid the OpenOffice code is not clean enough to run as a 64-bit
>> binary.
> 
> 
> Doesn´t it run natively on Solaris 64???


Yes it does but is still 32-bit binaries.
the simultaneous executability of 32-bit and 64-bit apps
has been in solaris since the release of Solaris 7. ( 1998 ? )

$ uname -a
SunOS rigel 5.9 Generic_117171-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500
$ isainfo -k
sparcv9
$ isainfo -v
64-bit sparcv9 applications
32-bit sparc applications
$ pwd
/opt/staroffice8-beta/program
$ file soffice.bin
soffice.bin:	ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+ Required, dynamically linked, stripped

//Lars



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