[ooo-build] Unable to Load Included Impress Templates in ooo-build 3.2.1.4

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On 06/22/2010 07:07 PM, Christoph Willing wrote:
> 
> On 23/06/2010, at 8:34 AM, <ooo-build at opennix.com> <ooo-build at opennix.com 
>  > wrote:
> 
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I have successfully built ooo-build 3.2.1.4 for Slackware64 13.1.   
>> Now I
>> am having problems using the included Impress background templates.
> 
> 
> I have also built 3.2.1.4 for Slackware64-13.1 but I can't reproduce  
> that problem. Templates & backgrounds load without any trouble.
> 
> Perhaps you could check our binary at:
>      http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/slackware64/13.1/openoffice-3.2.1.4-x86_64-1_uqv.txz
> 
> and if it works as expected (which it should) then we can investigate  
> whether some difference in building technique is causing the problem.
> 
> 
> chris

Thanks for responding, Chris.  Sure enough I do not have the same
problems using your OOo package.

Yours is built with an older icu4c.  That is the first difference I
noticed.  I had to replace my icu4c package with yours.  I do not
believe that is the cause of my issue, as I had the same problems with
Impress when I built ooo-build 3.2.0.x for Slackware 13.0.  That was
built against icu4c 4.2.1 (the same version you used).

Here is my configure command line:

CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" \
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" \
./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --localstatedir=/var/lib \
   --mandir=/usr/man \
   --docdir=/usr/doc/openoffice-3.2.1.4 \
   --build=x86_64-slackware-linux \
   --with-distro=Slackware \
   --with-ant-home=/usr/share/ant \
   --with-lang="" \
   --disable-odk \
   --disable-pam \
   --disable-pam-link \
   --disable-post-install-scripts \
   --enable-access \
   --enable-cairo \
   --disable-kde \
   --disable-kde4 \
   --enable-gtk \
   --with-system-cairo \
   --with-system-neon \
   --with-system-icu \
   --with-system-expat \
   --with-system-boost \
   --with-system-mozilla=seamonkey \
   --disable-mono \
   --with-docdir=/usr/doc/openoffice-3.2.1.4 \
   --with-gcc-speedup=ccache \
   --with-openclipart=/usr/share/openclipart \
   --enable-pdfimport

I've had to apply the patch included in this post:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ooo-build/2010-January/000473.html

That thread was started by me, as well.  No matter what I tried to use
for --with-lang the build would fail.  I tried setting it to "",
"en-US", and "en-US fr" without luck.  So I dug up that patch again and
configured with --with-lang="".

Is there any chance you can share your build process, or perhaps the
SlackBuild you used?

Personally I don't care much about presentations, but other people may
feel differently.

Thanks again,

Mike

> 
> 
>> Ways to reproduce:
>>
>> Open Impress.  During initial "Presentation Wizard" dialogue choose
>> "From template".  The "Preview" checkbox is checked per default.  A
>> window pops up containing the error message "Error loading the  
>> template:
>> General error".
>>
>> Open Impress.  During initial "Presentation Wizard" dialogue choose
>> "Empty presentation".  Click "Next".  The "Preview" checkbox is  
>> checked
>> per default.  Select any of the options listed under "Presentation
>> Backgrounds" or "Presentations".  A window pops up containing the  
>> error
>> message "Error loading the template: General error".
>>
>> Creating an empty presentation and choosing a background from "Master
>> Pages" -> "Available for Use" seems to have no effect.  There are no
>> warnings or errors but the background of the presentation does not  
>> change.
>>
>> Starting Impress from the command line provides no additional output.
>>
>> Templates are installed in the directory
>> /usr/lib64/ooo-3.2/basis3.2/share/template/en-US/layout/ with the
>> naming pattern lyt-{template}.otp.  Permissions on the files are 444.
>>
>> Web searches turn up little.  I did run across a posting on the Arch
>> Linux forums that describe the same behavior:
>>
>> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85592
>>
>> That thread gives no resolution.  Also, posters indicate vanilla
>> OpenOffice.org releases do not exhibit this behavior.
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any steps I can take to fix this
>> problem.  As always, let me know if any further information is  
>> required.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
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> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
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