Apache OpenOffice on FreeBSD-ppc (was Re: LibreOffice 4)

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hello Alexey;

Maho and I are committers in Apache OpenOffice and we would be 
absolutely delighted to bring more FreeBSD platform support.

Some related comments:

We were considering dropping AOO3 from the tree as AOO4 should be better.

Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 will be the last OpenOffice release to build 
with the old GNU toolchain in base. The Mac OSX port is forcing us to 
move aggressively towards C++11. TBH FreeBSD 9.x support is at risk due 
to a conflict between the old libstdc++ and an unpatched bug in the 
version of boost that we carry.

My recommendation is to start from 4.0.1 and then upstream your changes 
(it should not be difficult). For PPC you can, of course, borrow heavily 
from linux-ppc. Here is an old guide that may help:

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Lazy_Hackers_Guide_To_Porting

I will see if I can find some expert help for the endianness issue but 
don't be shy about asking questions upstream ;-).

Pedro.