[Libreoffice] Build problems (and some solutions) in Mac OSX

2011-12-19 Thread James C
Hello All, I have burned about 1.5 GB of metered network bandwidth, so far, following these instructions: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_build#Getting_the_sources I have found and, I think fixed, problems which occur on both origin/master and origin/libreoffice-3-5, where

Re: [Libreoffice] Build problems (and some solutions) in Mac OSX

2011-12-21 Thread James C
about 12/13 17:58. None of this is urgent. I'll come back to you-all when I have some results from my build. Regards, James. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+libreoff...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi James, *, On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:04 AM, James C james.from.welling

Re: [Libreoffice] Build problems (and some solutions) in Mac OSX

2011-12-21 Thread James C
I release the change originally attached below under LGPLv3+ and MPL. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:04 PM, James C james.from.welling...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I have burned about 1.5 GB of metered network bandwidth, so far, following these instructions: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org

Re: [Libreoffice] Build problems (and some solutions) in Mac OSX

2011-12-21 Thread James C
Hello Norbert, I license my past and future contributions to LibreOffice under LGPLv3+ and MPL. I have created an entry for myself on the wiki, and will link the archive of this email into it in due course. Regards, James. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com

[Libreoffice] [MacOS] Horizontal cursor positioning in justified text

2011-12-21 Thread James C
Hello All, Justified text changes the kerning (space between letters) of words on a line. The cursor positioning in writer seems to assume, falsely, that all of the adjustment happens in the spaces between words. So the cursor ends up in the middle of, or on the wrong side of, letters. This

[Libreoffice] [BUG] Hide system pkg-config, to avoid finding stray freetype.

2011-12-22 Thread James C
McNamara caol...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 20:33 +1300, James C wrote: I submitted a patch with git send-email.  I presume that it is awaiting moderation. hmm, maybe not, probably worth extracting it with git format-patch and try sending it as a manual attachment. Even

[Libreoffice] [PATCH] Hide system pkg-config, to avoid finding stray freetype.

2011-12-22 Thread James C
Sorry; re-doing the manual process with the right label :-) On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:52 PM, James C james.from.welling...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is a protection-from-contaminated-system patch, anticipated in the tail of this bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43917

Re: [Libreoffice] [BUG] Hide system pkg-config, to avoid finding stray freetype.

2011-12-22 Thread James C
Yes, we can't protect against an arbitrarily broken system. I'm not a good systems administrator. I don't know how to do please consider hiding it without breaking something else. I think pango is faulty; it needs to depend on how cairo was configured, but it is testing how the system is

Re: [Libreoffice] [MacOS] Starting dev-install is hairy

2012-01-02 Thread James C
for an Xcode application can be a piece of applescript or not. Regards, James. On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Stephan Bergmann sberg...@redhat.com wrote: On 12/22/2011 08:33 AM, James C wrote:   - cd-ing into Contents/MacOS and running soffice, gives me apparently the version installed