On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 06:11:46PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
     On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:51:05PM +0200, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
     > Since it was reported that the version in wip-libreoffice builds (only
     > with tests disabled), I suppose all the dependencies are there.
     
     I suppose so. But the work in wip-libreoffice is more a quick proof of
     concept, getting as quickly as possible to a compiling libreoffice. For the
     two dependencies I added, I needed to fill in fields (synopses and/or descrip-
     tions), enable the tests and make them work, and add optional inputs (which
     apparently were not needed for libreoffice, but should be there for a complete
     package, that is presented to the user and not only an input to libreoffice).
     
     As I see it, we should not simply merge the wip-libreoffice branch, but pick
     up the added dependencies one by one and turn them into proper patches for
     new packages.
     
I agree.  

The most problematic dependency was nss which has since been added to master.  I don't
know, but I suspect it might need tweaking to play nicely with libreoffice.

Libreoffice has some tests which run during the build phase, and others which run 
in the test phase.  It was one in the build phase that was crashing.

I didn't have a machine that was up to the job of building everything locally.  So
I had to rely on hydra.

The Libreoffice devs refused assistance after I described how Guix worked.

J'
     

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