I release the change originally attached below under LGPLv3+ and MPL.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:04 PM, James C <james.from.welling...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have burned about 1.5 GB of metered network bandwidth, so far, > following these instructions: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_build#Getting_the_sources > > I have found and, I think fixed, problems which occur on both > origin/master and origin/libreoffice-3-5, where the test for a > parallel build bug presumes that mktmp and the thing to do sha1 hash > sums look like they do on linux. A patch is attached, which I *think* > will not break the linux builds. I release this change under GPLv3 > and MPL, as requested. I hope that nobody has a software patent on > the idea of correctness in code :-) > > There is also a human-sized problem, with some instructions on the > web-site being wrong: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43920 > > I am now stuck, and have not yet built libre-office. There are two > ways forward; one technical and one human. > > The technical one is: > - my builds of origin/master and origin/libreoffice-3-5 fail in > pango, because it depends on where cairo gets its fonts from, and on > Apple Aqua, cairo gets its fonts from quartz, for which the > corresponding parts of pango seem not to have been written > > - this bug records my journey: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43917 > > - I expect that I will not complete it without help > > - how, if at all, is this software buildable under MacOS? > > The human one is: > - prebuilt LibreOffice 3.4.4 OOO340m1 (Build:402) from here: > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ > runs on my Mac, so it must be buildable > > - I cannot find the OOO340m1 tag in the git repository that I have > already invested resources in downloading > > - I do not understand which pieces of the source I would need, in > order to play with Writer, and how big they would be > > - please can there be a link on the download page, to an explanation > of how the various torrents relate to the various repositories? > > - better yet, please can the source for this version be put into the > repository, and I be told how to change to it? > > Regards, > James, > Wellington, New Zealand. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
