Thomas, the code has been written to run on both v8 and v8+/v9.
There is a test at runtime to discover the machine type. This was not implemented for linux sparc so i think it defaults to run on v8 anyway. Please see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30774 But the shared library is built with v8+ flags because it includes v8+ code, although the code which runs depends on the machine type. Is there a problem running this on v8? can you post some error message? If this library cannot run then it will be possible to make a separate sal library for v8. thanks jim
