[Libreoffice] Help?

Jerry Shi shijerr at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 18:21:17 PST 2010


nevermind, being pretty stupid now...Disregard the last email.

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Jerry Shi <shijerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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