Re: [Libreoffice] Building on CentOS 5

I will YET learn to hit the "Reply-All" button!  AAARGH!!

--Tp

Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote:
> Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 17:56 -0400, Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote:
> >  
> > > > Unfortunately, yum-builddep still isn't happy yet, even when I 
> > > > throw --enablerepo=*SRPMS.  I still get a "No such package(s): 
> > > > gedit.src", and the same for openoffice.org.src.  However, 
> > > > "yumdownloader --source" will fetch source RPM's just fine.
> > > >       
> >
> > Well, looking at a RHEL-5 box it simply seems that yum-builddep is
> > rather broken on RHEL-5. a) it needs the repo names to include "source",
> > b) it doesn't work anyway unless used with a specific
> > pre-downloaded .src.rpm
> >
> >  
> > > Hmm...am I asking this in the wrong place?      
> >
> > Well its rather off-topic in one sense if yum-builddep doesn't work for
> > e.g. gedit then its a generic problem and not a LibreOffice related one.
> >
> >  
> > > Just wanting to set up the compile environment for LibreOffice on 
> > > CentOS 5.
> > >     
> >
> > Sure, so lets put the yum-builddep thing aside then and forget about it,
> > it was only meant to be a short-cut to getting what you need installed.
> > Try this...
> >
> > yum install gcc-c++ ant java-devel junit4 flex bison perl-Archive-Zip
> > gtk2-devel freetype-devel gstreamer-devel autoconf
> >
> > and see if that works, I've added that to the wiki at
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_build for
> > RHEL-5/CentOS-5, if its not sufficient then let me know what errors you
> > get about missing stuff and we'll just append to the list until it is
> > sufficient :-)
> >
> > C.
> >   
>
> OK, just gave 'er a shot.  There are a few more dependencies.  Here 
> are the ones I was able to satisfy.
>
> - gperf
> - libXaw-devel
> - GConf2-devel
> - gnome-vfs2-devel
>
> There is also one I'm not sure how to satisfy within CentOS 5's 
> packaging.  This would be Qt4.  Here are the messages from make.
>
>  checking which jfreereport libs to use... internal
>  checking for jfreereport module... OK
>  checking which Apache commons-* libs to use... internal
>  checking for Qt4 headers... no
>  configure: error: Qt4 headers not found.  Please specify the root of 
> your Qt4 installation by exporting QT4DIR before running "configure".
>  make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
>  [microman@multimedia01 build]$
>
> Steps taken to get here:
>
>  git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/build
>  ./autogen.sh --with-git --with-num-cpus=2 --disable-kde
>  ./download
>  make
>
>
> Suggestions?
>
> --TP