Hello:
I just tried to build Apache OOo (current SVN trunk, checked out last
night) from source. I generated the main/configure script and started
out, setting options and installing missing libraries through the Debian
package manager as I went along. That worked for a while, but eventually
I got stumped.
Questions/issues:
1. I noticed that the options
--disable-odk, --disable-gnome-vfs, and --disable-gtk, while described
in the help, failed with
-disable-gtk: command not found
etc. In the case of --disable-gtk, that actually got me stumped, as I'm
not sure which libraries/packages I'm actually missing, and I couldn't
find a proper place in the configure script to disable forcibly (as I
had done with the others).
2. I rather would not build all of Openoffice; I only want to fix the
included Python interpreter and pyuno library. I would like to use
Apache OOo work with the library manager Bibus, which is a Python 2
program.
Debian ships with Libreoffice, which now includes only Python 3 and thus
shuts out Bibus. Apache OOo ships with Python 2; however, the Python
executable and the pyuno library that are bundled in the Debian files
are compiled with UCS2 (16 bit) unicode support, whereas the Debian
system Python and libraries are compiled with UCS4 (32 bit) unicode.
This also makes the OOo and the system Python libraries incompatible.
I guess improving the system/OOo Python interoperability would benefit
other users, too. Since the OOo build system already contains a
--with-system-python flag, would it be possible to set that flag for
compiling the Debian packages? Alternatively, is there a way to compile
just Python and pyuno from source myself, without having to compile all
the rest of OOo?
Thanks for any help, Michael
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