libreoffice live 14 days later

Lets sum up what happened in last 14 days after the 3.5 testing request.

People

We got few more people joining #gentoo-office testing the builds and reporting issues, which is really cool, as I don’t have to burn my CPU all the time :)

3.4 series

Today some good soul bumped the poppler and it broke on preserved-rebuild for libreoffice, so quite few of you will rebuild their testing installs. I was luckily able to backport poppler patch really fast after I was noticed about its compilation crashes. So if you want to rebuild after poppler update, make sure you SYNC.

For other news I quite reduced the ADDONS for 3.4.9999 so with 3.4.4 release there will be less stuff you will have to fetch, and what you will be able to eclean-dist after the update :)

To solve this issue even further starting with 3.4.4 we will have 2 new useflags on the office suite. Jemalloc, which is unrelated and will provide better allocator and pdfimport, that controls importing of pdfs to the suite (not exporting, that always works) and depends on the poppler.

libreoffice 3.5 and the place where all the joy happens

I managed to quite fixup the configure/compile/install stages to behave well in ebuilds, kudos to all people reporting the issues while i was breaking it all the time.

Next on my list of personal hate is the unbundling of SampleICC which is 30% done as today and then updating all the internal libraries where possible (which you guys probably won’t see as we in Gentoo use system libraries) so we could see more warnings. These warnings should be then addressed (oh gosh why I do this myself and won’t find some nice calm hobby, some say gardening is quite relaxing…).

Completely unrelated section about grub2

Nobody did bother to respond at my blag about grub2 with some offer to help update the guide. So really it will stay masked for A LONG TIME. Think hard if you have some things that deserve describing just mail the text to me, it does not need to be perfect, we will improve it as time goes…