[Libreoffice] ok to use MacPorts for dependencies??

[David Dumaresq]

On 2011-01-23, at 7:28 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:

> Hi *,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Aquilina
> <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1/23/11 3:43 AM, David Dumaresq wrote:
> 
>> 1. coreutils (from MacPorts)
> 
> You don't need those at all
> 
>> 2. pkgconfig (from MacPorts)
> 
> You don't need this either [1]
> 
>> 3. automake (from MacPorts)
> 
> You definitely don't need that
> 
>> 4. wget (from MacPorts)
> 
> You definietly don't need that.
> 
>> 5. libidl (from MacPorts)
> 
> You don't need this [1]
> 
>> 6. Archive::Zip for perl (from cpan)
> 
> You definietly don't need this.
> 
>> 7. GIT (http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/)
> 
> You need this (unless you want to download hundreds of megabytes again
> and again)
> 
>> 8. Mac OS X 10.4 SDK (from XCode install)
> 
> You need this.
> 
>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Install_Mac_OS_10.6.4_Dependencies
> 
> This isn't any better.
> 
> I wrote this so often already:
> 
> Using system hunspell on mac is stupid, no mac user will have hunspell
> installed on the system. So compiling agains system version is the
> same as disabling it.
> 
> Automake/autoconf, m4, coreutils, libgmp, iconv: All useless, not needed.
> 
> [1] You don't need /any/ external dependency unless you want to
> compile mozilla/seamonkey from scratch (i.e. when not using
> --disable-mozilla).
> 
> Then you /need/: libIDL and glib2 and gettext (and pkg-config for convenience).
> 
> All the other stuff is useless and not needed at all.
> 
> But you should get ccache as well, to speed up subsequent builds
> (http://ccache.samba.org)

So what you're saying is, if my goal is to develop for libreOffice on OSX, I don't need any of the dependencies mentioned above.
Well okay, I'll clean up my system (uninstall said dependencies) and move on to getting the source and attempting a build. 

Thanks,
Dave

> 
> ciao
> Christian
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