Re: Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu (was Re: [sugar] Write needs your help)

2008-07-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:24 PM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This from the abiword on ubuntu webpage
> (http://abisource.com/wiki/Install_on_Ubuntu)
>
> At this time, the latest version available directly from Ubuntu is an
> Ubuntu-modified 2.4.6. We are working to get AbiWord 2.6 in Ubuntu
> 8.04 "Hardy Heron"
>
> and adding their repo installs 2.6.4... but if you need the source
> that should work too
>
> I can build it without problems on my hardy system... just requires a
> lot of development library dependencies like below, you need to
> install libglib2.0-dev
>
> Kind Regards,
> David Van Assche

I built 2.6.4 from source yesterday on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on an
AMD Opteron 64-bit.

It does not display non-alphabetic ASCII correctly. The digits and
punctuation, and also the space character, mostly appear as Unicode
hex substitution glyphs. Armenian and Arabic display OK. Bengali
vowels do not attach to base consonants, but are displayed in their
standalone form. I'm giving up for the day.

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Re: Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu (was Re: [sugar] Write needs your help)

2008-07-17 Thread David Van Assche
This from the abiword on ubuntu webpage
(http://abisource.com/wiki/Install_on_Ubuntu)

At this time, the latest version available directly from Ubuntu is an
Ubuntu-modified 2.4.6. We are working to get AbiWord 2.6 in Ubuntu
8.04 "Hardy Heron"

and adding their repo installs 2.6.4... but if you need the source
that should work too

I can build it without problems on my hardy system... just requires a
lot of development library dependencies like below, you need to
install libglib2.0-dev

Kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sorry, what I meant is that, ideally, we would be testing Write in
>> joyride with the 2.6.4 version. As we don't have that version in
>> joyride yet, I think the closest we can do is testing Abiword 2.6.4.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>
> It appears that the 2.6.4 sources aren't configured to build correctly
> on Ubuntu using configure and GNU make.
>
> ./configure reports
>
> configure: error: No package 'glib-2.0' found
>
> (The correct name on Ubuntu is libglib2.0-0)
>
> Then make says:
>
> Building AbiSuite with [ABI_ROOT=/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4]
> make ABI_ROOT=/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4 -C src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4/src'
>
>I can't seem to figure out which platform you are using.
>
>You should probably try using the autoconfiscated build system (rather
>than this, the deprecated and unsupported diving make system) by running
>configure (creating it with autogen.sh if need be) and using GNU Make.
>Using configure is a requirement for all known platforms that
> aren't some form
>of Windows, QNX Neutrino, or MacOS X.
>
> exit 1
> make[1]: *** [fake-target] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4/src'
> make: *** [compile] Error 2
>
>
> Does anybody have a workaround? Would someone like to fix configure to
> work on Ubuntu? Do the makefiles need any change?
>
> So far I have the old version of Write that Ubuntu offers accepting
> and displaying Cyrillic and Greek correctly. I'll wait until I have
> something up-to-date to test before proceeding to the other 30+
> possibilities.
>
> Kim, should we create a process for globalization QA? We need testing
> for Amharic, Arabic, Khmer,
>
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