I do know that there were some changes in the official EPM (the project is now "dead") which may have caused this, but I'm not sure.
FTR: I have used the old, old 3.7 version for the Linux builds. I consider it a build system variable that I did not want to modify... :) > On Oct 11, 2020, at 3:26 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > I've built the 4.1.8-RC2 sources from > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.8-RC2/source/ > on a new CentOS 7 VM and generated "installed" (not packaged), RPM and DEB > builds that I tested on a variety of Fedora and Ubuntu systems. > > All good, for the most part. I'm still catching up with e-mails so I didn't > test anything specific to 4.1.8, just general usage. I have news on the > "General error" on Ubuntu too, but I'll expand on this in the relevant thread. > > But I'd like to highlight two issues occurring in the last stage of the > build, i.e., when we produce the RPM/DEB packages. > > 1) Jim's EPM installed as per > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#CentOS_7_for_AOO_4.2.x_and_later > didn't work for me. I got > > Error: ERROR: More than one new package in directory > > Configuring with > > ... > --with-epm-url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/epm-3.7.tar.gz > > did work instead, so I'd like to know if people who used the wiki instructions > > $ wget https://github.com/jimjag/epm/archive/epm-4.4.2.tar.gz > $ # (extract the archive) > $ cd epm-epm-4.4.2 > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-aoo; make install > > had better luck. Or maybe the new EPM is to be used for 4.2.x builds only? > > 2) Something seems wrong here: > > https://github.com/apache/openoffice/blob/AOO418/main/solenv/bin/modules/RepoRevision.pm#L78 > > We populate the "Rev." section of the About dialog based on version control, > so for a tarball (no Git, no SVN) this should result in "unknown-rev"; but it > doesn't and Git is called instead, returning an error message. > > To my purpose I simply used a hardcoded string and completed the build, but > it should be checked better: the official tarball is not a git clone and this > will always result in a (non-blocking) error message if someone builds from > it. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
