[Libreoffice] Help?

[Jerry Shi]

Nevermind that bit about it not existing.  I forgot built-in libraries.  I'm
still not sure why the assert would fail though...

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jerry Shi <shijerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alright, thanks for all the help so far.  To answer your questions, I'm
> using openSuse 11.2, on a fairly new dual core laptop.  Um...about the
> dependencies...I went to the repository for openSuse and installed both
> build and bootstrap, but I'm not quite sure that was the right thing to do,
> which brings up another question.  On the linux build dependencies page, it
> lists a command that I should use, but sudo zypper si -d
> OpenOffice_org-bootstrap # for OpenSUSE, but I recieve an error about how
> the OpenOffice_org-bootstrap doesn't exist.
>
> I did try removing the unxlngi.pro, and rebuilding, but that didn't solve
> the problem.  So, as far as I can tell, the problem is with this line of
> code:     PR_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(size_t) <= 4); in
> function SECStatus RNG_RandomUpdate(const void *data, size_t bytes)
>  Apparently, the "size of array arg is negative", although I have no idea
> what's going on.  I tried using the code search on opengrok, but it said
> that PR_STATIC_ASSERT didn't exist, so I'm fairly lost, so it probably is a
> git problem.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, but I'll go to irc.freenode.net and try to
> get some there.
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at novell.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jerry,
>>
>> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 19:53 -0500, Jerry Shi wrote:
>> > Hi, I'm new to opensource, so tell me if I'm asking very stupid
>> > questions, but,
>>
>>         Your questions seem sensible, and welcome to open-source (or Free
>> Software ;-).
>>
>> >       * Where is bin/g?  I can't find it anywhere, and it seems to be
>> >         all over the place on the wiki
>>
>>         Ah - then - perhaps this can be your 1st contribution :-) We used
>> to
>> use bin/g with the 'build' build method, but now we have the 'bootstrap'
>> build method, it should be replaced thus:
>>
>>        bin/g -> g
>>
>>        ie. it is in the top-level directory now.
>>
>> >       * The build failed, and I have no idea why.  The error's in the
>> >         nss module, in
>> >         clone/libs-extern-sys/nss/
>> unxlngi6.pro/misc/build/nss-3.12.8/mozilla/security/nss/lib/freebl/drgb.c,
>> and I've attached a copy of the error.  What should I do?
>>
>>         Nasty ! I've seen that myself in the past; and chased it into the
>> long
>> grass for a while; but I forget what fixed it. Apparently it compiles ok
>> for me now.
>>
>>        More details wrt. your distribution, and so on would probably be
>> most
>> helpful. How did you install the pre-requisite packages ?
>>
>>        Anyhow - worth a try deleting the output and re-buiding it (cf. the
>> rm
>> command at the end of the build failure message) , but I'm not that
>> optimistic; can you get on IRC so we can dig into it more ? #libreoffice
>> on irc.free <http://irc.freenode.net>node.net <http://irc.freenode.net> ?
>
>
>>        Thanks,
>>
>>                Michael.
>>
>> --
>>  michael.meeks at novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>>
>>
>
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