Hi Pedro, Am 08.12.21 um 22:55 schrieb Pedro Lino: > Hi Arrigo > > I got some errors while unpacking the tar.bz2 file so I'm not sure it is > working as expected. It did run and it still reported "Checking for an update > failed." > I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 x64
Is this a real machine or a VM? I ask, because I have seen the Update Feed fail on Ubuntu in a VM when it definitely worked on my Laptop. Regards, Matthias > > Regards, > Pedro > >> On 12/08/2021 7:08 PM Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Arrigo, >> >> Am 07.12.21 um 22:05 schrieb Arrigo Marchiori: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> we are getting somewhere! I am replying myself again below. >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 08:26:55PM +0100, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: >>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 09:29:18PM +0100, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello All, >>>>> >>>>> just a little update. >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 01:44:43PM +0100, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello Matthias, All, >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 12:26:37AM +0100, Matthias Seidel wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Arrigo, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Am 17.11.21 um 08:16 schrieb Arrigo Marchiori: >>>>>>>> Dear All, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I pushed a new branch "serf", that contains the OpenSSL upgrade >>>>>>>> commits (I reverted the reverts ;-) plus a tentative upgrade of the >>>>>>>> serf library to 1.3.9. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> A small patch is included to allow building with Python3-based SCons. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The oox module also needed minor patching because it uses some OpenSSL >>>>>>>> functions that were refactored since OpenSSL 1.1.0. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I tested it under Linux with Peter's Docker image (adding SCons). It >>>>>>>> builds and runs, but I am not sure how to verify if the SSL related >>>>>>>> problems are solved. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I could not yet test if it builds under Windows and Mac. Any help >>>>>>>> would be appreciated. Please note that the "serf" branch derives from >>>>>>>> trunk. >>>>>>> I cannot get it to build on Windows. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The build just stops at a certain point. No error messages. >>>>>> I had not tested it under Windows, when I commited it. Sorry. >>>>>> >>>>>> The build stops because the existing patch to OpenSSL does not apply. >>>>>> >>>>>> If we disable it, we face another challenge: OpenSSL does not build >>>>>> with Cygwin's Perl! >>>>>> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/9048 >>>>>> >>>>>> I will investigate if we need Strawberry Perl as suggested in the >>>>>> above link. It's sure this is getting more complex than expected. >>>>> I could patch the configure scripts to use Windows and Cygwin paths as >>>>> necessary. Now the compilation is failing because of missing symbols, >>>>> at link time. >>>>> >>>>> As soon as I have something almost usable, I will commit it. >>>> I think I fixed the OpenSSL module and the depending Python. >>> Not yet... there were more places in which the libraries were named, >>> and more fixes were necessary. >>> >>>> Serf is now posing another challenge. >>>> >>>> Apparently, SCons needs to access the Windows registry in order to >>>> detect the presence of Visual Studio. This is reasonable: also our >>>> "oowintool" script does so. >>>> >>>> Python scripts can access the Windows registry using the "winreg" >>>> module. The problem is that such module _is not included_ in Cygwin's >>>> Python distribution! >>>> >>>> There is a "cygwinreg" module available, but it does not seem to work. >>>> >>>> So instead of using an ``external'' Perl, we will need to use an >>>> ``external'' Python. >>> We will need an ``external'' SCons. I added the configure script >>> option "--with-scons" that must be used under Windows to point to a >>> ``native'' SCons.exe >>> >>> I added a minimal SConscript that checks the validity of the indicated >>> SCons. >>> >>> Unix users should just need to install SCons in some ways (either >>> using pip or the distribution's package) and it will be auto-detected >>> by the configure script. >>> >>> - Linux build: >>> >>> http://home.apache.org/~ardovm/openoffice/linux/openoffice4-2021-12-07-x86_64-installed.tar.bz2 >>> >>> - Windows build: >>> >>> https://home.apache.org/~ardovm/openoffice/windows/Apache_OpenOffice-2021-12-06_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe >>> >>> Do they work as expected? >> I tested on Windows, it works as expected. >> >> The main problem on Linux was the update feed... >> >> Regards, >> >> Matthias >> >>> Best regards, > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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