Re: Libreoffice building (sort of)

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> Well currently the libreoffice package in wip-libreoffice branch, builds, 
> installs and 
> seems to work ok.

Wo0t!  Excellent!

> Slightly worrying is that the first few builds crashed in one of LO's 
> unittests.  I added
> the line (setenv "CPPUNITTRACE" "gdb --args") which I expected just to give 
> me a backtrace
> to help me diagnose the problem.  I was very surprised doing this, caused the 
> package to 
> build, test and install without error! -- A Heisenbug.

How is $CPPUNITTRACE used exactly?  If it’s used as in:

  sh -c $CPPUNITTRACE test-program

then I’m surprised it works at all, because ‘gdb --args test-program’
just spawns an interactive GDB session.

Any idea what happens?

> Anyway, like I say, the  package works, but is a bit rough.   I suggest that 
> some of the
> dependencies are tidied up, reviewed and pushed to master,  and the deeper 
> issues investigated
> later.  Help doing this is welcome.

Sounds like a good plan!

Ludo’.