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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Libreoffice building (sort of)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:03:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx1obhm9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141124171933.GA8722@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:19:33 +0100")

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> Well currently the libreoffice package in wip-libreoffice branch, builds, installs and 
> seems to work ok.

Wo0t!  Excellent!

> Slightly worrying is that the first few builds crashed in one of LO's unittests.  I added
> the line (setenv "CPPUNITTRACE" "gdb --args") which I expected just to give me a backtrace
> to help me diagnose the problem.  I was very surprised doing this, caused the package to 
> build, test and install without error! -- A Heisenbug.

How is $CPPUNITTRACE used exactly?  If it’s used as in:

  sh -c $CPPUNITTRACE test-program

then I’m surprised it works at all, because ‘gdb --args test-program’
just spawns an interactive GDB session.

Any idea what happens?

> Anyway, like I say, the  package works, but is a bit rough.   I suggest that some of the
> dependencies are tidied up, reviewed and pushed to master,  and the deeper issues investigated
> later.  Help doing this is welcome.

Sounds like a good plan!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-24 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-24 17:19 Libreoffice building (sort of) John Darrington
2014-11-24 18:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-11-24 19:07   ` John Darrington
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-03-09 21:24 9x15bold xfont 白い熊 @相撲道
2015-03-09 22:03 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-09 23:57   ` 白い熊 @相撲道
2015-03-10  2:29     ` 宋文武
2015-03-10  8:54       ` Libreoffice building (sort of) 白い熊 @相撲道
2015-03-10 12:06         ` 白い熊 @相撲道
2015-03-10 12:41           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-11  9:01             ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-03-11  9:27               ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-03-11 12:04                 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-11 12:34                   ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-03-12  9:22                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-11 16:34               ` Mark H Weaver
2015-03-11 17:32                 ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-03-11 19:17                   ` Mark H Weaver
2015-03-12 22:56                     ` 白い熊@相撲道
2015-03-12 23:10                       ` Mark H Weaver

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