I can finally confirm that the patch from gnome bug 695925 above actually fixes the problem with Ubuntu 12.04.4 and LO 4.2.4 from the PPA. I have applied the patch to the glib source package and rebuilt and installed it, and then rebuilt libreoffice, gtk+3.0, dbus-glib and gvfs against the patched glib.
This now finally seems to work. Unfortunately, this whole rebuilding is a PITA and takes a long time, especially for libreoffice. I'm not sure if everything is needed, but anyway I have a bad feeling with this. Now there are still lots of packages on my system which were built against the unpatched glib, so I really think this needs to be fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 with *ALL* packages which depend on glib being rebuilt against a patched version. How can we achieve this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to glib2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1214352 Title: GUINT32/64_SWAP_LE_BE macros do not enclose val argument in parentheses Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in The "G" Library - GLib: Fix Released Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On 12.04 LTS precise GUINT32/64_SWAP_LE_BE macros do not enclose val argument in parentheses, causing trouble down the stack in gvfs and LibreOffice (and possibly in lots of obscure bugs elsewhere). There is a patch available, but as this touches the header, it needs a full recompile of rdepends. see: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/180302.html ff. for details To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1214352/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
