Well, I finally did it. Actually, it's currently hard to support SDK 10.4u, because it is incompatible with gcc-4.2, so I decided to begin with SDK 10.5. Meanwhile, 10.5 also supports CoreText at enough level.
Perfectly working LO: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/LibreOfficeDev_4.2.0.0.alpha0_20130831_MacOS_PPC.dmg About Box ;) http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/manulix/other/libreoffice/lo_4.2_git-about_box-screenshot.png $ git branch * tenfour $ git shortlog -s -n --author="dougmencken" 43 dougmencken On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Douglas Mencken <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello. > > > > As I found, LibreOffice community suddenly ditched support for Mac OS X @ > > PowerPC since version 4.1.0. > > On top of what cloph already explained, I would add that this was not > 'sudden' > The release note of 4.0 already warned that 10.4/10/5 SDK and hence > PPC where 'deprecated' > which means.. will be dropped soon, likely at the next version. > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Feature_removal_.2F_deprecation > "Deprecated Mac / PPC as a platform, raising our base-line to 10.6." > > it was added in the release note of 4.0 at that point: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes/4.0&oldid=59392 > > that is 11th of December 2012... more than 8 months before 4.1 > release... hardly 'sudden' > > > Specifically, it has been done with the > > following two commits by plain removal of code: > > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=7aa6f1b01481c1d0f1a12f56ad197c797056c37b > > > > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d8842c2221cb5e6ea958381f9dcd76d9bb9bbafc > > Actually that was already effectively broken before that, due to the > introduction of OS feature/api that were not backward compatible with > 10.4/10.5. > The commit you indicate are just the one that makes it clear and > official.. but the tree before these commit where already not > buildable on ppc. > > > But as Cloph said: if you have the hardware and the time to dedicate > to the task... your welcome to maintain backward compat with 10.4... > we will even gladly take the patches, as long as it does not break, or > put undue requirements to, the other platforms supported. > > > PS: if it has not been for cloph perseverance and dedication, the PPC > platform would have been drop way earlier... prolly as soon as the 3.4 > release. Bear in mind Apple timeline > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors > > Apple has not sold a PPC hardware in 7 years. > Apple dropped PPC support from their SDK 4 years ago. > Apple formally dropped support for any PPC software 2 years ago. > > as the saying goes: you can't be more royalist than the king. ( > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%AAtre_plus_royaliste_que_le_roi ) > > Norbert >
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