Author: ken
Date: Mon Dec 2 23:57:44 2019
New Revision: 22414
Log:
Allow libreoffice to build by not using system ICU.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Dec 2 17:19:30 2019 (r22413)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Dec 2 23:57:44 2019 (r22414)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "02"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "03"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "12"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2019">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "December 2nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "December 3rd, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!-- x.y|development -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Dec 2 17:19:30
2019 (r22413)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Dec 2 23:57:44
2019 (r22414)
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@
</listitem>
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>December 3rd, 2019</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Do not use system ICU for libreoffice, 65.1 broke
+ one of the packages which it ships with (libfreehand). Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12841">#12841</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>December 2nd, 2019</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml Mon Dec 2 17:19:30 2019
(r22413)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/libreoffice.xml Mon Dec 2 23:57:44 2019
(r22414)
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
<xref linkend="gtk3"/> and
<xref linkend="gtk2"/> (see <quote>Command Explanations</quote>),
<xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>,
- <xref linkend="icu"/>,
+ <!-- <xref linkend="icu"/>,-->
<xref linkend="libatomic_ops"/>,
<xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
<xref linkend="librsvg"/>,
@@ -369,6 +369,13 @@
In 6.3 -disable-gtk -enable-gtk3 added (sic, I accidentally built like
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 \
--with-vendor=BLFS \
@@ -393,7 +400,6 @@
--with-system-gpgmepp \
--with-system-graphite \
--with-system-harfbuzz \
- --with-system-icu \
--with-system-jpeg \
--with-system-lcms2 \
--with-system-libatomic_ops \
@@ -712,6 +718,17 @@
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>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
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