From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: PATCH: LibreOffice Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 22:32:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87fv6c1o9k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150531090831.GA4344@debian> <87pp5gtzi1.fsf@netris.org> <20150531181916.GA3182@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yz9uX-0005VG-Q3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2015 16:32:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yz9uU-0004K7-Hf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2015 16:32:45 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yz9uU-0004Jx-FN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 May 2015 16:32:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150531181916.GA3182@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sun, 31 May 2015 20:19:16 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > From what I understood, no. Libreoffice seems to expect the tarball in a > special location, and the libreoffice build system takes care of unpackin= g it. > But I am not a 100% sure whether the patching we do is needed or not; > maybe everything would compile with the unchanged tarball. One of the pro= blems > is that the patching changes dates and causes an "autoreconf" (or similar) > after unpacking anyway, so part of the /bin/sh-patching is reverted. I think we should try hard to not make Libreoffice depend on Autoconf/Automake; it=E2=80=99s always a good idea to avoid it, but even mo= re so here given the build time and size of the thing. :-) Does that seem doable? Thanks for the great progress on this! Ludo=E2=80=99.