Re: LibreOffice for FreeBSD on PowerPC

I've successfully built Libreoffice-4.3.7 on FreeBSD 10.2/PowerPC64, that
has menu icons,  toolbars and graphics.  With the exception of the Base
application, everything seems to be working correctly.

To get it to build, I had to take the "hatchet" approach, due to a flaw in
the big/little endian logic in the code.  The code does not seem to be
defining "OSL_BIGENDIAN" properly, thus testing fails and defaults to
little endian.  I removed and/or commented the code tests for
"OSL_BIGENDIAN" in most modules where it appeared.  Leaving the software
hard coded for "big endian".  I believe the issue with the Base application
is due to the "hatchet" that was taken to the code.

Armed with this knowledge, I working to find and correct the flawed endian
logic and develop patches.  I'm sure the results will be easily repeatable
for LO5.


On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 19.11.2016 00:19, Curtis Hamilton wrote:
> > On 11/18/2016 05:26, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > > On 17.11.2016 17:54, Curtis Hamilton wrote:
>
> > > My build environment:
> > >
> > > OS: FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE powerpc (64-bit)
> > > Compiler: GCC version 4.8.5
> > > Java Version:  OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-b14)
> > >                      OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed
> mode)
> > > I’m hoping that someone with knowledge of the workings of the user
> > > interface can provide some insight on what to look at.  I’m not sure if
> > > this is a LibreOffice issue or FreeBSD on PowerPC issue.
> > > it could be either, in particular if it's big-endian PPC there might be
> > > an endian issue in some image handling code, of which there is quite a
> > > lot for various different formats.
> > that was my initial assumption, but could not figure out how
> > OSL_BIGENDIAN was being defined, since "osl/endian.h" is not being
> > included in all files that tests for OSL_BIGENDIAN.
>
> urgh, really? ... yes that is clearly the case ... i hope it should be
> fixed with these commits
>
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/31039/
> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/31040/