Hello all,
As one of the most complex beasts in a (B)LFS installation, Openoffice
behaves accordingly ...
I've just (almost) finished a brand new installation, starting on new
year's eve with the then-current LFS (gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7). While it go
as smoothly as hoped, I reached one of the last packages,
openoffice-2.3.1, last sunday. Happy to see that blfs-svn has the
current version, I expected to build it on first try. Yes, I deviated a
bit but that seemed only fair - the explanations explicitly tell to
check configure options for others that might apply.
I couldn't get past ./configure without copying unowinreg.dll to
external/unowinreg (I had to do that since 2.1 or thereabouts). If it
isn't found ./configure tries to set up a MingW cross compilation.
Then I had the jdk/uu{en,de}code problem like Nicolas Francois. Luckily,
I found the solution on this list. It escapes me though why java finds a
ClassFormatError if gmime's uu{en,de}code are present.
That solved, java crashed a little later on. Looks like my own-built
jdk-6u3 doesn't work as expected. After switching to the binary one that
worked also.
Now, since I have the neon library installed, I chose to configure with
--with-system-neon. 2 hours into the compilation this gives some nice
undefined externals, because now you need to link in ssl and crypto as
well: sed -i "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@& -lssl -lcrypto@" solenv/inc/libs.mk.
Hours and a weary cpu later, openoffice was finally compiled and a quick
test looked like it actually worked.
Then I installed KDE (3.5.8) and tried to rebuild openoffice with
--enable-kde. Needless to say, that didn't work. It whined about libicu
incompatibilities (sorry, didn't look closely, I've just had enough of it).
Of course, this is all my fault. I did not follow the book by the
letter. But if I did, I wouldn't have to build my system by myself. I
could install a "distro" (don't like the word) and have a byte-by-byte
clone of a proven system. How boring. ;-)
Hans-Joachim Widmaier
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