Re: PATCH: LibreOffice

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> 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’.