[Libreoffice] [FIXED] Re: debug build fails because graphite ./configure not up to date

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 08:16:55PM +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 00:43 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A build with --enable-debug (or is it --enable-dbgutil?) fails in
> > graphite... for a problem already corrected in graphite's
> > configure.ac, but its "configure" is outdated and thus the problem
> > still surfaces.
> 
> Ah, I see. So I've now added a patch into that graphite module to sync
> the configure.ac logic into configure.
> 
> > Before I got to the point of trying to disable -Werror (and
> > understanding why it was enabled in the first place), I fixed one of
> > the warnings. Patch attached, still does not hurt to apply janitorialy
> > :)
> 
> Well, we do occasionally patch those "external" modules, but try to
> avoid it. The ideal place to send patches to graphite would be to the
> upstream graphite project and poke them to release a new update at some
> stage and then just upgrade to the latest graphite.

BTW, Graphite engine is being re-written into a more stable engine (the
current engine is crashy, or so I read), so it might be a good time to
consider switching over to the new engine.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer