Libreoffice Base Report Builder not available in Arch (but it is on other distros)

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,


Am 23.07.24 um 04:40 schrieb Celia Palacios:
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> Hello, I'm Celia Palacios, a member of LibreOffice community, and very new to distro packaging of LibreOffice in Arch.
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> I was directed to this list because I want to know how to resolve the Java dependencies for (Base) Report Builder in Arch. I ask for support to understand how to build the PKGBUILD file accordingly.
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You package the libraries in their correct order. and then enable the RB and specifiy the --with-whatever-jar options if needed.

Did that back then when it was introduced and then let it go instead of emergency fixes (Not even updating the version...) :)


Don't remember the order offhand but should be visible from e.g. Debians packages and their (Build-)Depends.

> he actual Arch dev is maintaining the LibreOffice packages without the report builder included, because there is an "ugly tree of dependencies" (sic)[1] of Java that makes it difficult to compile in order to have the complete features of LibreOffice.
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Yup.


> In Arch's PKGBUILD I found that they pull jfreereport. [2]
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What is missing then? (Didn't look)
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> In rpm's Fedora and Flatpak, I found they pull |pentaho-reporting-flow-engine. [3]
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> |In openSUSE, they pull pentaho-libxml and pentaho-reporting-flow-engine. [4]
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|pentaho-reporting-flow-engine basically is a "newer" jfreereport, renamed (see above). That's also why LO calls it jfreereport.|

|And libxml (amongst others) is used by that.|


Ideally this stuff shouldn't use that Java library tree, though, but *shrugs*.


|Regards,|

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|Rene
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