On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:27:49PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > On 06/23/2015 08:11 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: > > I'm looking at building LibreOffice for the first time (never had the > > horsepower before). The "7.2" book only covers the *-core-* package. > > What about the binfilter, help, dictionaries, but maybe not the > > translations "packages" also at the source? Useful? Not? > > > > Also, digging down the dependency chain there's raptor, "a C library > > that provides a set of parsers and serializers that generate Resource > > Description Framework (RDF) triples." It has a dependency on cURL. > > I've got wget which seems enough for the downstream, would rather not > > duplicate "fetchers", and can't understand why an RDF parser needs cURL > > anyway! Anybody know what's going on here? > > > > If you don't want to build some deps, you can always use internal ones. > You don't need any of the recommended deps (except GTK+, they don't > bundle that). Just remove the --with-system-* switches. > > Note though that you can't disable most of them, but only force the > build system to download and build a static ones. > To add to what Armin wrote, I _thought_ that we included the details for help, dictionaries, translations from when LO was first in the book, but perhaps not. The _current_ instructions for them are unlikely to work (the build details keep changing).
Also, all versions of LO will download a bunch of git versions of various packages at the beginning of the build. I will not be surprised if they are using curl to do that. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
