[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 50436] "make install" fails; ERROR: Missing files

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50436

--- Comment #4 from Davin McCall <davmac at davmac.org> 2012-07-23 15:36:23 PDT ---
Frankly, I'd be worried that I'd be spreading misinformation. I eventually
stumbled through a process that seemed to build a working libreoffice but so
much of it is voodoo, I don't know why it works. I downgraded gcc for example
but I'm not sure if that was really necessary or not and I'm hesitant to
recommend it to anyone else. I used a certain combination of configure options
and I'm not sure which were really necessary (nor even what effect they all
have).

Main questions are: what's the deal with the different tarballs (-binfilter,
-core, -dictionaries etc)? - which ones do I need? I seemed to manage just by
downloading the -core, but I don't understand if that means I'm missing out on
something. The build docs you linked to don't talk about building from source
tarballs at all. If I download tars other than -core, do I need to build them
separately or can I do something else to get them included in the build
process?

Also: what do the various configure options *really* do? I mean if I
--disable-mozilla for instance, what functionality does that affect?

I'd happily contribute to the wiki but I just don't have the answers. Your
suggestion is, to be frank, a bit patronizing.

Regardless, there are some real bugs evident in the build process, as
documented in comments above.

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