[Libreoffice] libtextcat patches

David Tardon dtardon at redhat.com
Fri Feb 4 22:49:26 PST 2011


On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:03:55PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> LibreOffice does not build with a stock libtextcat.
> 
> The official version seems to be freezed in time (last update is dated
> from 2003) and I understand the need to patch it (and add e.g. utf8
> support), but the changes are so numerous it feels like a brand new
> library.
> 
> Since I'm banging my head against the build system, it will be certainly
> easier for me to create a special-purpose package and run autogen.sh with
> --with-system-libtextcat than try to fix the included version of libcat.
> 
> Are these patches only maintained in LO ?

libtextcat package in Fedora contains them.

> Is there some upstream project managing the included version of libtextcat
> I should be aware of ?

None I know of.

D.


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