I've encountered a problem with AlienBob's compiled version of libreoffice. It doesn't make any difference whether I use 14.2, current with or without KDE5 I get the same problem

It's been suggested that perhaps I've not using an up to date system or a system that not clean in some way.

My system is up to date - I'm using current with kde4. I have few extra packages installed


As the suspicion is that my system is not clean I've elected to compile libreoffice myself.

I can compile libreoffice after cloning libreoffice's git.

I can't compile alienbob's libreoffice. I get this message



Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what I might be missing?

Alex

Have you tried the binary build supplied by LibreOffice (I use this one)? https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...e/libreoffice/

If you want to build from source, do you have all the requirements listed here installed: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...e/LibreOffice/

You only show the last few lines from the build log. The real error will have occurred way earlier. You can capture the full build output by appending the following to your commandline:
which will still show the full output on your screen while also writing a copy into the logfile /tmp/build_libreoffice.log.
Then I have a script called "checkpkg" which I always use to check my build logs. Download it and use it as follows:
That will still give you a lot of output, but only the relevant stuff that needs your attention. At the beginning you should be able to find the real cause of your build failure.

By the way.
What is the failure with my binary packages of LibreOffice for Slackware-current?

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Thanks for pointing out my error! I should have learnt this lesson by now - start from the beginning of the log.

It's looking like it's complaining that I haven't got gpgme installed. Downloaded your package dated 07-Mar-2007 05:15 which looks like it was compiled against Slackware-11.0.

I'm now getting a lot further.


The problem I'm getting with your packaged version of libreoffice is when I try and add a macro to a personalised toolbar in Calc by following the menu

Tools -> Customize -> Toolbars (tab)

Then in the “Category” drop down menu I choose the option “Macros”
LibreOffice then presents the “LibreOffice 6.2 Document Recovery” message box and crashes out.

You reported in the chat https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/lib...rent/#comments that I might have a stale system.

I'm hoping that compiling with your SlackBuild might throw some more light on what I'm seeing. So far it's highlighted the gpgme issue and that I might be out of step in not using your openjdk package.

So now just waiting for the compilation to complete.

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I don't understand why you use an ancient version of gpgme when this is part of Slackware 14.2 and -current?
Your problems may stem from having an incomplete install or a system broken for other reasons.

For grins I just tried what aikempshall described above Tools - Customize - Toolbars - Category - Macros and I see the same behaviour he is reporting. Drops into document recovery mode. I'm using the 6.3.0.4 version from Eric. I'm running 64-current with latest Plasma5.

Huh, same here for me, and I'm current on current. (XFCE, though.) Bug in Libre Office?

More fun is that I also run slackware64-current with Plasma5 on the laptop here, and cannot reproduce this.

OK...had my partner on Windows 10 do the same steps and Calc, but it didn't crash. He got a message that 64-bit Java wasn't found.

(I've got OpenJDK installed: 1.8.0_222.)

I tried uninstalling java, but it still crashed.

I have the same crash on current, but with the official binary release, it does not crash. I am running under i3wm.

That's puzzled me for a few days.

I've now seen in the current changelog that there is a n/gpgme-1.13.1-x86_64-1.txz.

Using slackpkg tried every hoop I could think of to reinstall the correct gpgme.

Thinking it would put me in a clean position I'd thought I'd use slackpkg clean-system, as I'm running on a test platform with very few extra packages seemed the sensible solution.

Everything went well, though still couldn't reinstall gpgme from slackpkg even though slackpkg search had reference to it. So installed it manually.

Then tried to recompile libreoffice using alienbob's slackbuild. It fails with

I suspect that slackpkg clean-system has cleaned a bit too much.

I think I'll call it quits and resume on Monday.

Well, I can reproduce the crash myself now.
So I ran LibreOffice Writer in a debugger and noticed that it crashes in a OpenJDK library. So I removed the openjdk package from my system and tried again.
This time I am getting the error ''LibreOffice requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task. The selected JRE is defective. Please select another version or install a new JRE and select it under Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Advanced". And then it crashes.

I've managed to overcome my problems with compiling libreoffice with Alien Bob's slackbuild. The problem was with whatever I'd done with the package gpgme. I'm not really sure how I overcame the problem - may have been simply re-powering my machine!

Any way If I compile libreoffice with Alien Bob's SlackBuild this is what I find -

1. It compiles sucessfully
2. After installing the packages I get the crash when I run calc using Kickoff Application Launcher -> Office -> Calc
3. I get the crash when I run calc from the command line
   Code:

   /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice --calc

4. I DO NOT get the crash when I run Alien Bob's pre-packaged calc from the command line
   Code:

    /tmp/build/tmp-libreoffice/libreoffice-6.3.0.4/instdir/program/soffice --calc

5. I get the crash when I run Alien Bob's pre-packaged calc from the command line
   Code:

   /tmp/build/package-libreoffice/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice --calc