Re: Fixing LibreOffice on ‘core-updates’

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le Sun, 25 Nov 2018 15:26:37 +0100,
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) a écrit :

> Heya,
> 
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> >  
> >> Hello Guix,
> >>
> >> As briefly discussed with Marius on IRC, we both tried to fix
> >> LibreOffice on ‘core-updates’.  The initial problem is that some
> >> of the libraries it depends on fail to build with the new Boost.
> >>
> >> I started upgrading the whole shebang but eventually got stuck with
> >> LibreOffice itself, which fails to build like this:
> >>
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >> [build PAG] writer
> >> [build MOD] embedserv
> >> [build CUS] extras/glade
> >> [build XSL] Classy_Red/styles.xml
> >> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> >> '/tmp/guix-build-libreoffice-6.2.0.0.alpha1.drv-0/libreoffice-6.2.0.0.alpha1/external/tarballs/49a64f3bcf20a7909ba2751349231d6652ded9cd2840e961b5164d09de3ffa63-opens___.ttf',
> >> needed by
> >> '/tmp/guix-build-libreoffice-6.2.0.0.alpha1.drv-0/libreoffice-6.2.0.0.alpha1/workdir/CustomTarget/extras/fonts/opens___.ttf'.
> >> Stop. make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make: ***
> >> [Makefile:286: build] Error 2 --8<---------------cut
> >> here---------------end--------------->8---
> >>
> >> Below is what I have so far.  Help welcome!  
> >
> > I am currently building libreoffice with this patch (along with the
> > package updates you mentioned):
> >
> > From a89c47bf5ea6850d15735d262a2497f7df20896e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > 2001 From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:00:42 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libreoffice: Fix build with MDDS 1.4 and
> > Orcus 0.14.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm (libreoffice)[source](patches): Add
> > two patches from Arch Linux.
> > [arguments]: Add substitutions so the libraries are found.  
> 
> Looks promising.  :-)  Did it eventually work?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ludo’.

libreoffice 6.2.0.alpha1 is not available anymore at
https://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/6.2.0/

The patches do not apply directly on the beta1, but I haven't
investigated more than that.