Changeset c2af02b for xsoft/office

Timestamp:

12/03/2019 07:57:44 AM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

ec42249

Parents:

8f036b74

Message:

Allow libreoffice to build by not using system ICU.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@22414 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml

@@ -197 +197 @@
       <xref linkend="gtk2"/> (see <quote>Command Explanations</quote>),
       <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>,
-      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
+ <!-- <xref linkend="icu"/>,-->
       <xref linkend="libatomic_ops"/>,
       <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
@@ -370 +370 @@
      that) which allows removal of  - -with-system-cairo but did NOT cause
      system epoxy to be automatically used, as configure claimed -->
+<!--
+     libfreehand-0.1.2 is downloaded (from freedesktop.org) but moving to
+     ICU-65.1 has highlighted a missing semicolon in one of the files,
+     causing libreoffice to fail to build : command moved to an option with
+     explanation until a newer version of libfreehand is pulled in.
+             \-\-with-system-icu           \
+-->
 ./autogen.sh --prefix=$LO_PREFIX         \
              --sysconfdir=/etc           \
@@ -394 +401 @@
              --with-system-graphite      \
              --with-system-harfbuzz      \
-             --with-system-icu           \
              --with-system-jpeg          \
              --with-system-lcms2         \
@@ -711 +717 @@
       address books through Evolution Data Server. Note that Evolution Data
       Server must be installed for this feature to function.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <option>--with-system-icu</option>: This command would use the system
+      version of <xref linkend="icu"/> which is normally considered to be a good
+      thing to do. However, one of the very minor packages pulled in by
+      <application>LibreOffice</application>, libfreehand-0.1.2, does not compile
+      with ICU-65.1 because of a missing semi-colon at the end of one line in one
+      of its files. Do not use this option unless you have separately installed a
+      patched or newer version of
+      <ulink url="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libfreehand">libfreehand</ulink>.
     </para>