OpenOffice 2 Beta - What Do We Need to Do???

jsnorman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

Does anyone know if anyone is working on ebuilds for ~amd64 for the OO2 beta? Putting aside all the silly noise over use of Java, it us a big improvement and I would like to get it over to 64 bit asap.

If someone is working on this, can I help in any way? If not, can someone point me to the right resources to start on this myself? Thanks.

Jeff

lavish · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:27 am Post subject:

Sure, it works fine. There`s just a little problem with symlinks (in my opinion)... so try to run it in this way:

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lavish

stef · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 92

hmm .. it does not seem to like the 64bit blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01. any tricks for compatibility?

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Downloaded the 32bit sun jre and installed it in /opt by hand ... in OOo: Tools->Options Java: Add this.
Seems to work fine :-)

Hayl · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:

Go into the options and turn off the JRE. it loads up _way_ faster this way.
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jsnorman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

fourhead · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

OOo 2 is working very well here on AMD64. I've disabled Java and it indeed loads like 10 times faster. Does anybody know when there will be a PPC binary available (I'd like to switch it on my other machine too)? Also, are there any informations yet how OOo 2 will handle i18n and if it will compile on AMD64/PPC (OOo 1 doesn't compile on AMD64 at all).

Tom

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fourhead · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:27 am Post subject:

What the hell are they doing with there code that it doesn't compile on AMD64? If it does compile on a completely different arch, shouldn't it compile on the same arch with some advancements? Well anyway, any hope for a PPC binary soon?

Tom

lavish

ronmon · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject:

Someone is working on a 64 bit build. Like the 32 bit binary builds, it takes almost 4 minutes to load whether java is enabled or not. Plus it crashes whenever I scroll in a file selection box. 32 bit 1.9.87 crashed when I tried to save changes in a .sxw that I had created in OO-1.1.4.

Personally, I'm going to wait until they get things figured out a bit better. 1.1.4 loads in about 5 seconds, so I can open it, do some quick work and close it before beta even starts up. For me that makes it a no-brainer.
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jsnorman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

Thanks for the link ronmon. I guess I will keep waiting.. I too have had many problems with the 32 bit binary. Really should have a 64 bit build, glad someone is working on it.

MorLipf · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

I emerged the hardmasked openoffice-bin-1.9.87 package. Now I have start problems on my Gentoo AMD64 2005.0:

stef · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 92

hmm well... using sun 32bit jre as i mentioned above and openoffice-bin loads in < 3 sec. on my amd64 3000.
I had really *slow* loading times without the 32bit jre since OO always started the 64bit blackdown vm which then took 100% cpu for some time ... until it gave up reporting that it did not find a good vm.

^jimmy^ · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:38 am Post subject: Re: oo 2.0 beta