Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > From what I understood, no. Libreoffice seems to expect the tarball in a > special location, and the libreoffice build system takes care of unpacking it. > But I am not a 100% sure whether the patching we do is needed or not; > maybe everything would compile with the unchanged tarball. One of the problems > is that the patching changes dates and causes an "autoreconf" (or similar) > after unpacking anyway, so part of the /bin/sh-patching is reverted.
I think we should try hard to not make Libreoffice depend on Autoconf/Automake; it’s always a good idea to avoid it, but even more so here given the build time and size of the thing. :-) Does that seem doable? Thanks for the great progress on this! Ludo’.
