Fwd: Unable to build libreoffice-5.0.4.2 on Slackware 14.1

[David Tardon]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 05:44:23PM +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> Not sure what might be going on here, I’ve tried to reproduce the issue building on Ubuntu with no luck. 
> 
> One of our IRC slackware users has been having some issues compiling 5.0.4.2, getting the following unit test failures:
> 
> > /tmp/build/libreoffice-5.0.4.2/sc/qa/unit/ucalc.cxx:4540:Test::testAutoFill
> > assertion failed
> > - Expression: m_pDoc->GetCellType(ScAddress(0,i,0)) == CELLTYPE_NONE
> > 
> > ucalc.cxx:4540:Assertion
> > Test name: Test::testAutoFill
> > assertion failed
> > - Expression: m_pDoc->GetCellType(ScAddress(0,i,0)) == CELLTYPE_NONE
> > 
> > Failures !!!
> > Run: 205   Failure total: 1   Failures: 1   Errors: 0
> > 
> > Error: a unit test failed, please do one of:
> > 
> > export DEBUGCPPUNIT=TRUE            # for exception catching
> > export CPPUNITTRACE="gdb --args"    # for interactive debugging on Linux
> > export VALGRIND=memcheck            # for memory checking
> > 
> > and retry using: make CppunitTest_sc_ucalc
> > 
> > make[1]: *** [/tmp/build/libreoffice-5.0.4.2/workdir/CppunitTest/sc_ucalc.test] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > make: *** [build] Error 2
> 
> Anyone able to offer any pointers?

Does he build with system mdds? If yes, and it is <= 0.10.x, there's the
likely cause.

D.