ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Heya, > > Marius Bakke 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 >> 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? It did! I've pushed the patches.