On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:01:38 +0000 Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnam...@collabora.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 14:25 +0000, Gowtham Selvaraj wrote: > > We are currently in the process of setting up LibreOffice with PDFium > > for use on the s390x CPU architecture within a Red Hat Enterprise > > Linux (RHEL) environment. However, we have been unable to locate any > > available resources or precompiled binaries for this configuration. > > I don't think anyone has ever built the "upstream" style distro-neutral > packages for s390x. So it's probably only distros that provide > pre-built s390x distro-specific packages of LibreOffice. > > I don't know if RH still supplies s390x packages for LibreOffice RHEL. > IIRC it was built for RHEL-9 I think. But even if they do I imagine > they are still configured the same way as all the other platforms on > RHEL/Fedora are. So that's with --disable-pdfium for all platforms[1] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libreoffice/blob/rawhide/f/libreoffice.spec > > So, if you really need an --enable-pdfium build, then I'd start with > taking the libreoffice.src.rpm package for your version of RHEL > (assuming there is one, and if not then getting the EPEL, or failing > that, then one from the Fedora version that your RHEL was derived > from). And try building that yourself, but with --disable-pdfium in the > .spec changed to --enable-pdfium and see how far that gets. > > I imagine at the least you'll need to download and put in sources the > pdfium tarball listed in download.lst from > https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/ > > I'd try on x86_64 first, to make things simple, and if that works retry > on s390x. I'd do two passes, first with an unmodified src.rpm to see if > it can be built at all properly, and then with the same mod as tested > on x86_64 to try and enable pdfium. > > [1] I never enabled pdfium for Fedora, and therefore RHEL, because I > didn't want to take on the burden of maintaining pdfium, and initially > at least pdfium wasn't used much. There was no technical reason for > --disable-pdfium. I have run a quick check on the Fedora Rawhide libreoffice package with pdfium enabled and it looks good after adding few more build deps and disabling few tests (as I haven't looked at why they failed). So chances for the same in RHEL are quite high in my opinion. Dan
