Re: Fixing LibreOffice on ‘core-updates’

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

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’.