[Libreoffice] Mac OS 10.4 Support

[Tor Lillqvist]

> I believe it's about time to drop 10.4 support in LibreOffice. [in master]

I agree, but please ignore my opinion, as I am not really in the Mac part of this community... I just happen to have also a MacBookPro, I love it, and build LO on it (natively, and cross-compiling for iOS).

> Most of this is because I'd like to Upgrade my box to 10.7 and the new 
> version of xCode 4.1 (the Mac development suit) doesn't support 10.4.

Xcode 4(.0) which has been out for some time already has not supported 10.4 either, so one had to install Xcode 3 in parallel with Xcode 4. Which works fine, as long as you install Xcode 3 first, and in a different prefix (like /Xcode3, instead of the default /Developer). You can even develop against the 10.4 SDK in thr Xcode IDE if you add a few symlinks, http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110318050811544 . (But for an LO build that is irrelevant, we don't use the IDE.)

I upgraded my Mac to 10.7 yesterday, and with some minor glitches, a LO build seemed to get going normally. I didn't have time to let it complete, though, before the wife started to use the MBP, and she has a tendency of putting it to sleep (closing the lid) when finishing, and I didn't bother go down and re-open the lid, reopen my ssh connections, etc, as it was getting late;)

I pushed some fixes that I hope help with the above mentioned glitches. Seems that we for some reason have been using -L/usr/lib when building for the Mac, which of course is silly as we explicitly build against the 10.4 SDK, so we should never have any reason to link against a library in the potentially much newer build OS. Previously that apparently/hopefully didn't matter, but in 10.7 I saw some strange problem that seemed to be caused by such unintended linking with stuff from /usr/lib. Or something.


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