[Libreoffice] Build on MacOSX : Requirement for hunspell

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+libreoffice at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alexander, *,
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Alexander Thurgood
> <alex.thurgood at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just wanted to touch base with others here as to the requirement for
>> hunspell in the build environment on MacoSX. Is it absolutely necessary
>
> No. It is even stupid/pointless to use system hunspell, as nobody will
> have it installed on Mac.
>
>> ? I only ask this because OOo uses the MacOS spellchecker AFAIK and has
>> done for some while. Any comments ?
>
> MacOSX spell checker and hunspell can both be used, so MacOS versions
> should continue shipping hunspell. But not system one, but the one
> included in the sources.
>
> Similar for the other requirmenets listed: They are just wrong.
> You need XCode. You don't need extra autoconf, automake or whatever.
>
> Only if (and *only*) if you build mozilla from source, you need
> libIDL, glib2 and gettext in addition (and pkg-config for not having
> to specify lots of enviornment variables when building those extra
> deps).

An to build these, you need a recent 'autoconf, automake or whatever'

>
> so ./configure --prefix=/my/seamonkeydepsdir/ && make && make install
> for those abovementioned requirements is enough.  (and setting
> PKG_CONFIG=/my/seamonkeydepsdir/bin/pkg-config)

Actually that should  not be needed anymore. we deliver a m4 macros
for mac to circumvent the need for pkg-config

Norbert

> After building seamonkey, go to the moz dir, run dmake zip, save the
> zips from unxmac*pro/zip to a safe place and the next time when
> building put the zips into moz/zipped and specify
> --disable-build-mozilla on configure. You can remove
> /my/seamonkeydepsdir completely.
>
> ciao
> Christian
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