AbiWord-2.8.6

[Randy McMurchy]

Now 2.8.6, works for me. wv is now 1.2.9, and since it is now *required* I'll pull it in as part of htis ticket.

[ken@…]

see #2637 for details of the problem with 2.6 releases and libxml2-2.7.3.

[willimm]

Replying to ken@…:

see #2637 for details of the problem with 2.6 releases and libxml2-2.7.3.

well, the bug that Ken was talking about was fixed in 2.7, and now we have Abiword 2.8.0. Chock full of good stuff in this release, according to the release notes here: ​http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.8.0.phtml.

[ken@…]

Works ok on LFS-6.6 x86_64 with goffice-0.8.2.

[ken@…]

The configuration script is very confusing - lots of things that are in the book as optional deps are in the script, but they don't appear in the output. At the moment, I've got a problem agreeing the build times - when I first built it on this system (without static libs) it took 618 seconds (3.6 SBU), and used 152 MB of which 16.1 MB was the installed files.

Since then I've installed gnumeric [ goffice eas already installed ], gstreamer plugins, totem, gnome-media, boost, and gnash. Testing yesterday and the day before, the build was taking more than twice as long. After going through the logs line-by-line I realised that the static libs were probably the cause. My build is now *only* 20% longer than the first time, but twice as big, with 44.6 MB installed. This is with the boost headers moved out of the way, in case boost was the issue. I'll keep mulling this one over, trying to find what is making the build so different.

[ken@…]

r8647

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Milestone 6.5 deleted