>>> 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?
Repeating question: anybody know why raptor needs cURL? Seems odd. >>> >> >> 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. Yes, I understood that. All "those" directories just contain "what to do with it after download gets the actual source". (And I thought OpenJDK was a monster!!) >> Note though that you can't disable most of them, but only force the >> build system to download and build a static ones. But it doesn't download those extra tarballs, help, dictionaries, et al. That is one heck of a list of downloads! I guess configure can figure out which ones it doesn't need. >> > 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). Not in the BLFS I found contemporaneous to LFS-7.2, "Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-11-02". But I see they're in BLFS-7.7. Maybe I can use that as a pattern. (My book had LO-3.6.2.2. I thought about stepping up to a more current 4.something, but looking at all the dependencies, and checking for CVEs, decided to stop with 3.6.7.2, end of the v3 series. I've never had any before, so that should be good enough.) > > 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. I read the download script. It'll use either wget OR cURL, whichever one has. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
