[Libreoffice] Building on gentoo ...

[James L]

>  On 20/10/10 08:28, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:45:11 +0200, René Kjellerup
>> <rk.katana.steel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On the other matter unless you're still running kde 3 then you need
>>> --disable-kde else the config will fail when it can't find Qt 3.x
>> On that matter can, we please --disable-kde by default. I don't know of
>> recent distros that ship kde3 but not KDE4, and those who do can turn it
>> on in their distro-specific defaults.
> Forgive the newbie question, but while I've got a lot of programming
> experience large chunks of detail here (gnu tools, frinstance) are new
> to me.
>
> I've dug a bit, found configure.in, and found
>
> AC_ARG_ENABLE(kde,
> [
>   --disable-kde           Disables KDE native widgets.],
> ,)
>
> Does this switch it on? Will deleting it disable kde by default?
>
> If it will, I'll put a patch in.
>> Even better, our make should detect the lack of qt3 headers and disable
>> it automatically rather than bailing out.
>
> That's a bit deeper ... won't stop me having a go if someone would care
> to give me a few guidelines :-)
>
>> Sebastian
>>
> Cheers,
> Wol

That means '--disable-kde' is a command line option to 'configure'.
I think 'configure' is called from the .ebuild and the .ebuild sets the
configure command line based on USE flags.