[Libreoffice] Help?

[Jerry Shi]

Alright, so I just got off of irc.freenode.net, and now have another
question.  For some odd reason, make fetch does not work.  It gives me an
error, make: nothing to be done for 'fetch', which stumped the person I was
chatting with.  Any ideas?

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Jerry Shi <shijerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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