Re: [Libreoffice] ok to use MacPorts for dependencies??

On 2011-01-23, at 12:16 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:

> On 1/23/11 3:43 AM, David Dumaresq wrote:
> > Hello, can anyone verify whether these steps are valid for building LibreOffice? I'm running 
> > with 10.6.6 on a 32 bit Mac.
> >
> > I got off to a bad start building manually and then found this link by searching the archives, 
> > so I jumped in and started with MacPorts, but now I look closer at the page (closer==top of the 
> > page) :p and see the page is marked as obsolete. can't find a replacement...(arrgh). 
> >
> > The page: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibreOffice/HowToBuild
> >
> > The instructions:
> > On MacOSX 10.5.8/10.6.4 (with git and wget) :
> >
> > You'll need to manually install some build dependancies:
> >
> > 1. coreutils (from MacPorts)
> > 2. pkgconfig (from MacPorts)
> > 3. automake (from MacPorts)
> > 4. wget (from MacPorts)
> > 5. libidl (from MacPorts)
> > 6. Archive::Zip for perl (from cpan)
> > 7. GIT (http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/)
> > 8. Mac OS X 10.4 SDK (from XCode install)
> > * Note: on 10.6 MacPorts defaults to x86_64 if you have a 64bit processor; so use +universal to 
> > install both i386 & x86_64. 
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> >
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> The link below is what you want. Do not install anything from Mac Ports
>
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Install_Mac_OS_10.6.4_Dependencies

Thanks, but I'm having warnings at glib2 and failure after that step. According to Christian later 
in this thread, the dependencies are unnecessary so I'll move on to building from source.

Thanks again,
Dave