Re: Beginner's question about installing Libreoffice SDK

FYI: in the meanwhile I have solved the problem below. I retried the whole process in a virtual 
machine (ubuntu 19.10), and there I do get an interactive configuration script. I suspect that 
there is something misconfigured or broken on my machine that has nothing to do with LibreOffice, 
and that makes the interactive prompt not work as it should. Thanks again for your help.

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From: David Johnson <david_johnson58@outlook.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 3:36 AM
To: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>; libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org 
<libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Beginner's question about installing Libreoffice SDK

My reply inline from the beginning to the end:

> (Please reply to the mailing list, not just to me directly.  I put the
> list back into the loop.)

Sorry, I am using a new email-client and it did not work as I expected.

> On 17/12/2019 19:55, David Johnson wrote:
> > I also tried that, but the script simply outputs the following, and then
> > "freezes" and does not ask for any input:
> >
> > $ ./setsdkenv_unix
> >
> >   ************************************************************************
> >   *
> >   *  You have to configure your SDK environment first before you can
> >   *  use it. The configuration has to be done only once.
> >   *
> >   ************************************************************************
>
> That's odd, never seen that myself.  I guess you need to debug that
> yourself.  setsdkenv_unix is a shell script that calls perl after
> outputting the above.  Likely there's some option you can add to that
> perl command line to let you somehow debug the Perl code (but I'm far
> from a Perl expert myself :)

That is unfortunate. Thanks, then I know at the least that I did not do something wrong... Running 
the script was the first thing I tried.

Do you happen to know who wrote (or maintains) that configuration script - or is there a way in 
which I can find that out? Then I can try to contact this person.

I will also try what happens when I run the most recent version of the SDK and ask some other 
people to install it as well on their machines to see what happens.