<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Sep 2016, at 22:07, Michael Lewis <<a href="mailto:m1ewi5@mac.com" class="">m1ewi5@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">I hope I’m going to the right place with this question. I followed the directions for “<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #252525" class="">Building LibreOffice on OS X” (Minimal Setup) <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac" class="">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac</a>.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">There is a warning on this web page: </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">When building LibreOffice on OS X 10.11, you currently need to use at least --disable-firebird-sdbc. </b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">I did not know where to insert this code, so I did not use it.</span></div></div></div></blockquote>you need to add (or create) that in a file called “autogen.input” that file is placed in the root of your repo.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I got most of the way through the build instructions. But at Step 12 (Build LibreOffice), I executed the </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #f9f9f9" class="">./autogen.sh call and got the following error:</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""> </span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Failed to run aclocal at ./autogen.sh line 171.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#252525" class="">Line 171 contains</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><font color="#252525" face="Monaco" class="">system (“$aclocal $aclocal_flags”) && die "Failed to run aclocal”;</font></div></div></div></blockquote>Could it be that you did not install the libreoffice dependencies ?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>at least on my new mac, aclocal was not preinstalled.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I did use </div><div><a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac#Quick_Pre-canned_Setup" class="">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac#Quick_Pre-canned_Setup</a></div><div>since it was easier, and how just build / start LO without problems.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I can suggest you take a look at:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved" class="">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>that might help you with many of the aspects.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>reds</div><div>jan I.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I don’t know how to fix the problem with the alocal call. I am running Xcode 7.3.1 under OSX 10.11.6. Xcode seems to run OK, although I’m a new user (and brand new to LO development).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I shut my system down and restarted. Same error, even when I run as su.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Any advice appreciated. Thanks, ML</span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">LibreOffice mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org" class="">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br class="">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>