Re: Fixing LibreOffice on ‘core-updates’

[Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>]

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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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?

It did!  I've pushed the patches.

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