On 06/23/2015 09:52 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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
> 

No, they are using wget. Curl library is needed by something else iirc.

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