Bug 215130 - editors/openoffice-4: Apache Openoffice does not support powerpc64
Summary: editors/openoffice-4: Apache Openoffice does not support powerpc64
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: powerpc Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: FreeBSD Office Team
URL:
Keywords: needs-qa, patch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-12-08 01:45 UTC by Curtis Hamilton
Modified: 2017-01-31 03:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
vlad-fbsd: maintainer-feedback? (office)


Attachments
Enable OpenOffice to build and install on PowerPC64 (132.52 KB, patch)
2016-12-08 01:45 UTC, Curtis Hamilton
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Description Curtis Hamilton 2016-12-08 01:45:39 UTC
Created attachment 177771 [details]
Enable OpenOffice to build and install on PowerPC64

Apache OpenOffice officially supports Linux on PPC64, but only supports FreeBSD on x86 (i386 and AMD64).  The Makefile script lacks support for PowerPC64 platform.  Other build structures encountered issues later in the build process due to lack of support for FreeBSD on PowerPC64.

The included patches adds support for building on FreeBSD on PPC64. Patches are against OpenOffice 4.1.3 on ports tree r427743 (2016-12-03).

Patching Instructions:  

     -  Download and copy patch file to /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-4

     -  Execute: patch -i enable-powerpc64.patch

     -  Run make


The resulting build runs with full functionality. (Tested on a PowerMac G5 Quad "Late 2005")
Comment 1 Don Lewis freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-01-24 01:57:02 UTC
I'm surprised that you didn't run into any problems with the unxfbsd?.pro glob pattern in the install phase.  On amd64 and i386 this matches unixfbsdx.pro and unxfbsdi.pro.  I think this is unxfbsdppc64.pro on PowerPC64.
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-01-24 02:10:06 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: truckman
Date: Tue Jan 24 02:09:10 UTC 2017
New revision: 432309
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/432309

Log:
  Add PowerPC64 support.  [1]

  Add a section to pkg-message mentioning that spell check dictionaries
  for the desired languages should be installed.  [2]

  PR:		215130, 212103
  Submitted by:	Curtis Hamilton <hamiltcl@verizon.net> [1]
  Submitted by:	Arrigo Marchiori <ardovm AT yahoo.it> [2]

Changes:
  head/editors/openoffice-4/Makefile
  head/editors/openoffice-4/files/patch-openoffice4_powerpc64
  head/editors/openoffice-4/files/pkg-message.in
Comment 3 Curtis Hamilton 2017-01-24 16:01:38 UTC
In the current release the patch uses "unxfbsdp.pro" vice "unxfbsdppc64.pro" to be consistent with other CPU implementations for FreeBSD. However, you are correct in the 4.2 developer snapshot, "unxfbsdppc64.pro" is used. hopefully, when AOO 4.2 is released, all necessary powerpc64 support should be included.

Not sure why it's necessary to use "ppc" or "ppc64" versus "p" since you can only build for one CPU at a time.  Differentiating between 32-bit and 64-bit is taken care of in the code.

That being said, the solution in the Makefile works regardless of what is used.
Comment 4 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-01-31 03:25:47 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: truckman
Date: Tue Jan 31 03:25:01 UTC 2017
New revision: 432895
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/432895

Log:
  Upgrade to upstream svn revision r1780246.  This incorporates the
  pointer comparision fixes required to compile with clang 4.0, so
  delete patch-clang40.  Also,
  patch-lingucomponent_source_spellcheck_spell_sspellimp.cxx has been
  incorporated upstream.

  On amd64, clang++ 4.0 uses the MOVAPS SSE instruction to initialize
  sufficiently large objects returned by the "new" operator.  This
  requires that the object have 16-byte alignment.  The FreeBSD
  malloc() implementation does the correct thing here, but OpenOffice
  has a couple of internal memory allocator implementations that only
  align to 8-byte boundaries at most.  In addition OpenOffice overrides
  the new operator to interpose a couple of layers of wrappers.  If
  the --enable-debug option is passed to configure, the wrapper adds
  8 to the size passed to the allocator and adds an 8 byte offset to
  the pointer returned by the allocator to make room for a signature
  that it adds to the beginning of the memory block (the signature
  is validated and the inverse transformation is done when the memory
  is freed).  This breaks the proper alignment done by the mamory
  allocator.  Fix these problems by adding an EXTRA_PATCH that teaches
  the internal OpenOffice memory allocators to do 16-byte alignment
  and to use a 16-byte offset in the "new" wrapper, and apply this
  patch on amd64 if clang 4.0 is the system compiler.

  Pass the --with-alloc=system flag to configure so that the libc
  version of malloc() is used instead of one of the internal memory
  allocator implementations.

  Fix a few mis-sorts in BUILD_DEPENDS and don't list www/p5-libwww
  twice.

  Fix a sporadic failure in the clear_001 QA test that occasionally
  breaks the build.  The nominal mutex hold time is 5 seconds, but
  because it is only checked one per second, the actual time is more
  likely to be around 6 seconds.  When the before time value is
  subtracted from the after time value, the result might be 7 whole
  seconds and a large negative number of nanoseconds.  Since the
  pass/fail check only looks at the difference in the seconds fields,
  it will fail the "< 7" assertion.  Relax the assertion to "<= 7"
  as a quick fix.

  Add PowerPC64 support.  [1]

  Add a section to pkg-message mentioning that spell check dictionaries
  for the desired languages should be installed.  [2]

  Various fixes from PR 216245:   [3]
   * Add option for mysql driver, default off.

   * Poppler is only needed for the optional PDF Import extension
     (and we only need poppler and not poppler-glib).

   * The --without-stlport configure flag is not needed.

   * Pass the -with-build-version flag to configure (but use ${PKGNAME}
     for completeness instead of just  ${PORTNAME}-${PORTVERSION})

   * Tweak a comment in the Makefile.

  PR:		215130, 212103, 216245
  Submitted by:	Curtis Hamilton <hamiltcl@verizon.net> [1]
  Submitted by:	Arrigo Marchiori <ardovm AT yahoo.it> [2]
  Submitted by:	pfg [3]

Changes:
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/Makefile
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/distinfo
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/files/Makefile.others
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/files/extra-patch-align16
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/files/patch-clang40
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/files/patch-lingucomponent_source_spellcheck_spell_sspellimp.cxx
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/files/patch-sal_qa_osl_mutex_osl__Mutex.cxx
  head/editors/openoffice-devel/files/pkg-message.in