[Libreoffice] First build from sources

[David Tardon]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 11:00:16PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:18:13PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > While doing that, I found the following issues:
> > 1) automake-1.11.1 complains a lot about GNU make extensions in
> > Makefile.am files:
> > bin/piece/Makefile.am:1: wildcard env-*: non-POSIX variable name
> > bin/piece/Makefile.am:1: (probably a GNU make extension)
> [...]
> 
> That one's still open. No suggestions? Or just ignore for now?
> 
> > 7) patches/apply.pl is unhappy about the version number returned by
> > NetBSD's patch:
> > Patch version 2.0-12u8-NetBSD
> > Use of uninitialized value $ver_line in pattern match (m//) at /archive/cvs/libreoffice/build/patches/apply.pl line 924.
> > Can't get patch version
> > Usually, NetBSD patch works fine, do we want to force GNU patch or
> > should I change it to accept NetBSD's patch as well?
> 
> The problem here was that NetBSD patch reports version to stderr. I've
> fixed that on both sides: LO now looks at stderr as well, and
> NetBSD-6.0's patch will report version to stdout.
> 
> New open issues:
> 8) /archive/cvs/libreoffice/build/bin/transform: /archive/cvs/libreoffice/build/bin/font-munge: not found 
> The problem here is that the this script wants to run /usr/bin/perl,
> but with arguments:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -pi.bak -w
> Replacing it with /usr/bin/env doesn't work since then we can't
> provide further command line arguments in that case.
> The Makefile in that directory already contains a perfectly usable
> ${PERL} variable; then we'd need to
> 
> git mv font-munge font-munge.in
> 
> and add a rule
> 
> font-munge: font-munge.in
> 	sed "s,/usr/bin/perl,${PERL},g" font-munge.in > font-munge
> 	chmod 555 font-munge
> 
> to the Makefile. That would work, except I don't know on which target
> to hang the dependency so that font-munge is created early enough.
> Suggestions?
> 

Hi,

I fixed it in another (IMHO much simpler :) way in commit
06fe4522138b362c1152c056b59d8d08a3fc97ea .

D.