On 08/15/2019 08:20 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 06:29:05PM -0400, Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-dev wrote:I confirm, configure parameter --enable-python=system set to --enable-python=no everything else equal Make lxml missing from tarballs and building is now successful. So we have a deviation from book and then other following book specification should have a trouble too... 1) Are other compiling libreoffice should have the trouble... (confirmed?) 2) What should we decide to be set in the book... a) python=no b) python-lxml mandatoryI updated it differently a while ago : c) python-lxml recommended Your distro, your rules.
I know, but my intent was to contribute to BLFS.
It appears that without python the build will drop a load of things which I personally regard as wastes of space, but that the functionality is likely to be reduced. A quick glance at the LO wiki suggest that they are overrun with pythonistas (a common situation, many people think it is a good scripting language) and therefore doing without it is, for them, not tested. It looks as if some capability relating to dictionaries might be lost, and probably some spreadsheet functionality. To me, it looks as if significant testing would be needed to get some idea of what it will leave out. Since I only use limited options in writer and calc it, I don't think I would get a good impression of what will be lost. As I said earlier, I'll hope to look at that in my own builds, but it isn't a priority.
Well.... Let me summarize. 1) Code freeze 2) Book instruction make libreoffice build impossible 3) Within Version 2019-08-15, libreoffice-6.3.0, I see no reference to python-lxml 4) Trouble analyze establish a very very probable cause (as to be within book directives). So I have for my say, issue should be resolved before release. Note: I would choose the option "python-lxml mandatory", but as the release is not that fare away, it could be safe to say --enable-python=no and clear up the issue for 9.1(?) release. This is not my call to decide.
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