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Thank you very much, downloaded and installed. I have confirmed my suspicions that this fix to revert back the old behavior in Calc is not complete. I use Calc everyday I know how it worked before, just wanted to make sure I was not imagining things. it did work as I expected. This new behavior is terrible. Again thanks.
Side note: I was a bit concerned as I realized on download this that I also have installed libreoffice-dict-en-7.2.0-x86_64-1alien and libreoffice-kde-integration-7.2.0-x86_64-1alien. Not to worry though, working okay.
Now to work on my bug report.
Second side note: I have backups of all my packages except the 12 packages I get from Alien Bob's repository via slackpkg w/slackpkg+. Guess I need to change that.
I mirror his builds locally. In his build directory he has libreoffice71.SlackBuild, which is what I tried to use to build the older version, it fails. In fact the libreoffice.SlackBuild for 7.2 also failed in my first tries at the same spot. I was building from a virtual machine with the build files located on a NFS share. I ended up copying everything over to the virtual machine umounting the share and just ran it on the virtual machine, it built successfully. Not able to do that with the 71 SlackBuild.
I did verify the libreoffice71.SlackBuild with the changes, as expected it matches.
I identified a couple more patches on the libreoffice bug tracker, I will give those a shot, or I'll just wait until the 7.3 comes out. Nix that, it seems they may or may not be restoring it all back. I can't be the only one who uses Calc as I do. This new behavior totally sucks.
Extracting source archive(s) for libreoffice...
.xz: (stdin): Unexpected end of input
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
./libreoffice.SlackBuild FAILED at line 1204
Code:
$ sed -n 1204p libreoffice.SlackBuild
tar -xf ${SOURCE[$i]}
Looks like badly downloaded archives.
For me, unpacking works fine.
Code:
# ./libreoffice.SlackBuild
** Please examine the following output (enclosed in '-+-+-+' lines).
** If you see any filenames there, it means that these are still missing.
** Since they will not be downloaded when LibreOffice starts compiling,
** you may run into problems later.
** NOTE: this indicates that this SlackBuild needs to be updated.
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
++
|| libreoffice-7.2.2
++
Extracting source archive(s) for libreoffice...
. . . .
Symlinking all external archives into src directory for libreoffice...
./libreoffice.SlackBuild FAILED at line 1218
Code:
# sed -n 1218p libreoffice.SlackBuild
chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a+X-s .
upgrade coreutils-8.32-x86_64-3.txz
after modifying the patch libreoffice.skia.patch
change liberation-fonts-ttf-2.1.4.tar.gz,language-subtag-registry-2021-08-06.tar.bz2,openssl-1.1.1l.tar.gz
libreoffice.SlackBuild
as of current Changelog dated Sat Sep 25 19:32:08 UTC 2021 LibreOffice 7.2 from ponce's repo builds from source and runs without issue for me.
HTH
john
PS take note of the capitol 'L' in the build name so you get the source build.
Last edited by AlleyTrotter; 09-26-2021 at 08:23 AM.
Reason: add PS
The latest release version of LibreOffice is 7.2.1, the version that's in ponce's repo. Version 7.2.2 is prerelease so not worth too much effort at the moment. Yes, downloadable but not released. It might be fun to play with but a 0.0.1 update won't have (m)any new features. I couldn't find any release notes for 7.2.2 - I guess that makes sense if it's not released yet.
The latest release version of LibreOffice is 7.2.1, the version that's in ponce's repo. Version 7.2.2 is prerelease so not worth too much effort at the moment. Yes, downloadable but not released. It might be fun to play with but a 0.0.1 update won't have (m)any new features. I couldn't find any release notes for 7.2.2 - I guess that makes sense if it's not released yet.
chris
Thanks for the update Chris. The build is on my other machine which will eventually become my main box.
Just wanted to point out that your slackbuild on Ponce's repo works fine for me.
john
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