Open Office on FreeBSD powerPC

[Julian H. Stacey]

ryan.p.davis at gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a PowerPC G5 system that I am using FreeBSD on. How do I build/compile OpenOffice for this platform? When I go to /usr/ports/editors and make install, I get the error that the source tree there is for i386 and AMD64.
> 
> Am I missing something? Or do I need to go to a different location? Or do I have to figure out how to pull down raw source code and determine my build dependancies and etc to compile from scratch without a make file?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>  ryan

Maybe try libreoffice ?

cd /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/editors
grep ONLY_FOR_ARCHS *office*/Makefile
	openoffice-4/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=   i386 amd64
	openoffice-devel/Makefile:ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=       i386 amd64
echo *libreoffice*	# lots

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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