Fwd: Unable to build libreoffice-5.0.4.2 on Slackware 14.1

[Christoph Willing]

On 25/01/16 18:20, Yury wrote:
> Chris Sherlock <chris.sherlock79 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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:
>
> I had troubles with unit tests on 64-bit Slackware 14.1, with 5.0 series,
> too, I believe (no such issues with 5.1 series). Had to switch off testing
> or ignore it, I don't rightly remember, the build was functional.
>
> Might be this build routine part relies too heavily on modern libraries'
> versions?

Slackware 14.1 just about to become a thing of the past - 14.2 is 
imminent. I have a working SlackBuild for 5.0.4.2 on 14.2 available at:

https://github.com/cwilling/slackbuilds/tree/new-LibreOffice/office/LibreOffice

chris