Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) FreeBSD porting status page

Apache OpenOffice FreeBSD porting status page

by OpenOffice porting team , NAKATA, Maho , and Jackson Low

News

2012/Feb/29: The FreeBSD port has been merged in the Apache SVN repository. The Apache OpenOffice blog has a new entry from Maho@.

Older OpenOffice.org porting news can be found here.

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Available ports (ports in the FreeBSD ports tree)

Obtaining older packages, language packs, and build logs (DEPRECATED)

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Supported platforms

FreeBSD 5.3 and later, FreeBSD 6, FreeBSD 7, FreeBSD 8, FreeBSD 9: supported
Officially supported by office@freebsd.org. If your build is broken, please let us know. Recommendation is FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE.
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE/i386 : NOT supported
We had serious implementation differences in rtld.c between FreeBSD and NetBSD/Linux/Solaris which had been producing very weird problems and a hard-to-track bug. It was fixed after 5.2.1-RELEASE and 4.11-RELEASE. Please see the commit log for details. We decided to mark this port as BROKEN for them, however, and a patch for rtld.c for 5-RELENG are available. This patch is totally unsupported so use it at your own risk. Feedback is welcome. This has reached to the end of life.

If you are 5.3-RELEASE or prior, you will need to do the following:
```
% su
Password:
# fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~maho/ooo/patch-rtld.c-releng5
# cd /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf ; patch < patch-rtld.c-releng5
# make ; make depend ; make install
```
FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE/i386 : NOT supported

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How to build

Basically, just typing make 'install' will work fine for standard installations. It will fetch everything you need from the Internet while you sit back and drink a cup of coffee or take a nap. However, compiling jdk is the most tedious part (i.e. fetching the java source code and enabling the linux binary compatibility mode required by the linux version of jdk for bootstrapping). I'll assume you have already installed JDK 1.6.0 (/usr/ports/java/jdk16) via ports in this tutorial. If you want to build a developer version or other snapshot versions of OOo, just cd to different directory; /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3-devel or /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3-devel.

Building/installing OpenOffice.org (English version)
```
% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 ; make
% su
Password:
# make install
```
Building/installing/packaging a localized language package (Japanese version for example)
```
% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 ; make LOCALIZED_LANG=ja
% su
Password:
# make LOCALIZED_LANG=ja install package
```
For other languages such that French, German, etc, please change LOCALIZED_LANG=XX; replacing XX with your language in ISO-code, etc) Please consult files/Makefile.localized for supported languages.

Building a package

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 ; make
% su
Password:
# make package

Building sdk

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 ; make ; make sdk

Building solver

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 ; make ; make solver

Building the English version with package/sdk/solver

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% su
Password:
# make package package-rename solver sdk deinstall clean

Building all localized language packages
The initial make may take 6 hours, however the next make will only take 5 minutes. The trick is TWEAK_L10N touches work/.configure_done* etc. This is due to limitations of ports framework.

# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 ; make ALL_LOCALIZED_LANGS=yes
# make TWEAK_L10N=yes LOCALIZED_LANG=ja pre-everything
# make LOCALIZED_LANG=ja WITH_CCACHE=yes package package-rename deinstall
# make TWEAK_L10N=yes LOCALIZED_LANG=ar pre-everything
# make LOCALIZED_LANG=ar WITH_CCACHE=yes package package-rename deinstall
# make TWEAK_L10N=yes LOCALIZED_LANG=ca pre-everything
# make LOCALIZED_LANG=ca WITH_CCACHE=yes package package-rename deinstall
...

Renaming your OOo package, OOo_${VERSION}_${PLATFORM}_${ARCH}.t{bz|gz}; for example, renamed to OOo_3.0.0_FreeBSD70Intel_install_ja.tbz.
```
% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% su
Password:
# make package package-rename
```
Building with ccache (useful for 2nd builds and developers as it reduces the amount of time for a full build from 6 hours to 3 hours)
```
# make WITH_CCACHE=yes
```

For releasing, do everything described above (build every localized package, sdk, solver, and rename).

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/files
% perl generate.pl > ../go.csh
% su
Password:
# cd .. ; csh go.csh

Knobs

Building with debug symbols support

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITH_DEBUG

Building without gnome VFS support

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITHOUT_GNOMEVFS

Building with devel/icu from ports

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITH_SYSTEM_ICU

Building without CUPS support

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITHOUT_CUPS

Building with Qt/KDE vclplug

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITH_KDE

Building with gpc instead of libart

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITH_GPC

Building with evolution2 support

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make -DWITH_EVOLUTION2

Building with full localized language support

% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make LOCALIZED_LANG=alllangs

Building select language support
```
% cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
% make LOCALIZED_LANG=xx
```
while xx can be one of the following:
af ar as-IN be-BY bg br bn bn-BD bn-IN bs ca cs cy da de dz el en-GB en-US en-ZA eo es et eu fa fi fr ga gl gu-IN he hi-IN hr hu it ja ka km kn ko ku lo lt lv mk ms ml-IN mr-IN ne nb nl nn nr ns oc or-IN pa-IN pl pt pt-BR ru rw sk sl sh sr ss st sv sw sw-TZ te-IN ti-ER ta-IN th tn tr ts tg ur-IN uk uz ve vi xh zh-CN zh-TW zu
Current setting: en-US

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Release process

Commit thoroughly tested updates to the FreeBSD ports tree
Prepare clean installed x.y-RELEASE of FreeBSD
Install cvsup and perl and rebuild world
cvsup ports tree

Generate shell script for full build

# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
# cd files ; perl generate.pl >& ../go.csh

Remove /usr/local, /var/db/pkg, and /var/db/ports
```
# rm -rf /usr/local /var/db/pkg /var/db/ports
```

Build Openoffice.org dependencies

# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
# make -DBATCH depends

Build entire OpenOffice.org (takes a very long time, may take several hours to several days)
```
# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3
# setenv BATCH yes ; csh go.csh
```
Upload to http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/, ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/ . Only maho and Jack Low knows how to upload binaries.
Write an e-mail to ja@openoffice.org, st@openoffice.org or mh@openoffice.org to report packages are uploaded to visible place.
Announce at releases@openoffice.org and openoffice@freebsd.org to let people know packages are available for FreeBSD.
(optional) Do QA test for localized packages.
(optional) Announce if QA has passed.

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Todo

Define QA process. Pass VCLTesttool with recent VCLTestTool environment

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Porting tips

Checking out the source from cvs

 cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs checkout -r DEV300_m5 OpenOffice3

checkouts DEV300_m5 source.

 cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs checkout -r cws_srx645_mozooo

checkouts cws_srx645_mozooo.

How to make a mozilla runtime : see #iz 11424 and #iz 28398 and use mozzip.sh for 1.0.
How to make a patch
```
% dmake patch
% dmake create_patch
```

Using cwstools, esp. for how to take diff of cws and its anchor (please read PJ's email)

pavel@pavel:~/.ooo/ooo_SRC680_m96_src> cwsquery -m SRC680 -c macosx06 modules
cwsquery -- version: 1.5
cwsquery: Master workspace 'SRC680', child workspace 'macosx06':
cwsquery: Modules:
jvmfwk
scp2

Two modules are in macosx06

cd scp2; cvs diff -r CWS_SRC680_MACOSX06_ANCHOR -r cws_src680_macosx06

See the diff.

cws-extract
cws-extract of ooo-build is very nice, a lot easier to obtain the diff explained above.
cws-commit-patch
cws-commit-patch make it easier for us to commit patches to ooo cvs. You must have your issue numbers handy!

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Porting pitfalls

bridges/source/cpp_uno
solenv/inc/unxfbsdi.mk

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Links

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Policy

We support Java 1.5, 1.6, both diablo, and OpenJDK port versions for all openoffice.org-2 and openoffice.org-3 related ports.
Looking for volunteers to support gcj build.
If you would like to submit significant patches for Apache OpenOffice, please fill out and submit the Apache Individual Contributor License Agreement CLA. If you want to learn more, please check the License FAQ. Here is a list of people who have signed the Apache CLA.
If you would like to provide enhancements in the Makefile in the ports framework, you *don't* need to fill out an iCLA.
If you would like to provide bug fix(es) and/or enhancement(s) which won't be integrated into Apache OpenOffice, i.e. Ximian patches, you *don't* need to fill out the iCLA.
Previous SUN/oracle contributors agreements are not needed anymore.

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Contact

FreeBSD Apache OpenOffice porting team

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Thank you very much for your support!