Why only for i386

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 26 12:35:33 PDT 2006


On Friday 26 May 2006 03:01 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200605261406.49753.jkim at FreeBSD.org>
> : Most of the machine dependent code is already done by Linux
> : people.  I am just bridging MD code with FreeBSD now.  It is
> : mostly working but it has some rough edges.  Most difficulty is
> : build-test-rebuild cycle because of my poor laptop is not so
> : fast, CPU, memory and disk. OpenOffice.org source is about 300MB,
> : (gzip'd tarball).  It is so big because this tarball includes
> : third-party software tarballs (e.g., Python, BerkeleyDB, boost,
> : etc.) and local patches for OOo. Unfortunately some third-party
> : packages are not patched for FreeBSD/amd64.  In that case, I am
> : referencing FreeBSD ports to fix them.
>
> I have a fast build box or two I can provide you access with, if
> that would help.

It won't help me much because remote debugging will be hard for 
complex GUI app like this.

> I can also test things if you'd like.

That will be great.  The current patch is here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/OOo20-m169_20060522.diff

It builds fine without WITH_DEBUG knob but it won't be much useful 
because it's unstable at this point.

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim


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