LibreOffice

[Ton van der Zwet]

porting issues regarding LibreOffice

i needed to increase several quota to get the configure to start normally:
prclm=100
fillm=4096
bytlm=700000
jtquota=30000
wsextent=200000
pgflquo=2300000

maybe too high, but for the moment i don't care...

[Ton van der Zwet]

Started the port of LibreOffice 4.0.4.2.

issues so far:
VMS is not a valid os for LibreOffice --> for the moment ignored by using --build=alpha-dec-linux
CUPS is needed --> --disable-cups
pkg-config is needed --> looking for a working pkg-config (see this wiki)

[John Malmberg]

pkg-config porting thread.

Pkg-config now needs a more up to date port of glib, which is also a component of GTK+. pkg-config contains a version of glib that can be used sort of like a bootstrap, because I think that the actual glib project needs pkg-config to build it.

[Ton van der Zwet]

John, i found your 0.21 version on ftp://encompasserve.org/gnv/. As was mentioned in the conference call of 5 september it may be sufficient for now to run the scripts further. I report any issues with this old version.

[Ton van der Zwet]

proceeding with checking the dependancies on other packages by the configure script. I ended up installing (most of) the previously ported packages of John. Some issues regarding the dependancies build in of the older ports by John (product name had JEM, f.i. didn't recognize the newer zlib...). So i had to instal the older (JEM) version. I think we should bring all the ported packages under a single dependancy strategy (vmsports?).

Now stranded with a dependancy on a newer version of make (need 3.81, we have 3.78.1). see the attached configure output.

bash-4.2$ bash ./configure --enable-verbose --enable-debug --build=alpha-dec-linux --disable-cups
rm: cannot remove `conf566': is a directory

---

Running LibreOffice build configuration.
*

---

checking build system type... alpha-dec-linux-gnu
checking host system type... alpha-dec-linux-gnu
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for grep... (cached) /bin/grep
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking whether build target is Release Build... no
checking whether to sign windows build... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for gawk... /bin/gawk
checking for bash... /bin/bash
checking for GNU or BSD tar... gnutar
checking for tar's option to strip components... --strip-components
checking for ccache... not found
checking gcc home...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for gcc... /bin/gcc
checking whether to build with additional debug utilities... no
checking whether to do a debug build... yes
checking whether to use selective debuginfo... no, for all
checking whether to include symbols while preserve optimization... no
checking for explicit CFLAGS... no
checking for explicit CXXFLAGS... no
checking for explicit OBJCFLAGS... no
checking for explicit OBJCXXFLAGS... no
checking for explicit LDFLAGS... no
checking which package format to use... native
checking whether to enable crashdump feature... no
checking whether to turn warnings to errors... no
checking whether to have assert to abort in release code... no
checking whether to use linkoo for the smoketest installation... yes
checking whether to use link-time optimization... no
checking whether to enable CUPS support... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for FONTCONFIG... yes
checking whether we want to fetch tarballs... "yes, if we use them"
checking whether to build help... yes
checking whether to include MySpell dictionaries... yes
checking whether to use dicts from external paths... yes
checking for spelling dictionary directory... file:///usr/share/hunspell
checking for hyphenation patterns directory... file:///usr/share/hyphen
checking for thesaurus directory... file:///usr/share/mythes
checking whether to enable pch feature... no, obsolete
checking for GNU make... make
checking the GNU make version...
configure: error: failed (make version >= 3.81
needed
bash-4.2$ make --version
GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for VMS
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Report bugs to bug-make@gnu.org.

bash-4.2$

[John Malmberg]

You can uninstall the old ZLIB and install the new one and it will work. You have to override the PCSI install warnings about the dependencies.

The PCSI install process can not deal with a kit changing the prefix from JEM to VMSPORTS or GNV.

[Eric Robertson]

Ton,

Just to see what other barriers stand in the way of the configure step, I would copy the configure script from the SRC_ROOT directory into the VMS_ROOT directory and then edit the version in the VMS_ROOT directory to alter the minimum version of make it will accept so that the current version of make in GNV (3.78.1) will pass the test. This will at least let the rest of the configure script run (which won't need make until after configure is finished). This way you can at least see what other issues (if any) occur in the configure script after the test for the version of make so that you can work on these issues until a new version of GNU make is made available.

[Ton van der Zwet]

I got some progress. Installed the 3.82 version of make --> configure happy :-)
installed perl (the next show stopper) and at the advise of John installed the following scrip in /usr/bin:

EAGLE> type gnv$gnu:[usr.bin]perl.
#! /bin/sh
/perl_root/perl $*

The result is a failure in the configure script.

configure:11764: checking the GNU make version
configure:11769: result: make 3.82
configure:11870: checking whether GNU make supports the 'file' function
configure:11887: result: no
configure:11903: checking for --hash-style gcc linker support
configure:11956: result: no
configure:11965: checking for perl
configure:11983: found /usr/bin/perl
configure:11995: result: /usr/bin/perl
configure:12014: checking the Perl version
configure:12021: result: checked (perl 5)
configure:12028: checking for required Perl modules
configure:12034: error: Failed to find some modules

The part of the script that is failing is: perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'

the reproducer:

$cat perltest.sh
if `perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'`; then
echo "result: all modules found"
else
echo "result: Failed to find some modules"
fi

BASH:
bash-4.2$ bash --debug --verbose ./perltest.sh
if `perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'`; then
echo "result: all modules found"
else
echo "result: Failed to find some modules"
fi
perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
result: Failed to find some modules
bash-4.2$

DCL:
$ perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'
$ sh sym $status
$STATUS == "%X00000001"
$ perl -e 'bla'
No code specified for -e.
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
$ sh sym $status
$STATUS == "%X0000002C"

[Bill Pedersen]

Well, I am not the perl expert. So I have cc'd Craig. Maybe he can give
you some pointers.

Bill.

[John Malmberg]

DCL test was invalid, because of quoting issues.

EAGLE> @disk$bigdisk:[vms$common.perl-5_18]perl_setup.com
EAGLE> perl -e "printf 'hello'"
hello
EAGLE> perl -e 'printf "hello"'

The issue appears to be in the script hack. Looks like to pass configure, we need to come up with a better hack.

The quoting is being stripped before it is passed to the actual perl command in the script.

Maybe use the alias command for perl instead of a script?

bash-4.2$ /perl_root/perl -e 'printf "hello\n"'
hello
bash-4.2$ perl -e 'printf "hello\n"'
bash-4.2$

The e-mail gateway to these forums does not work very well. Please use the web form for replies.

[Craig A. Berry]

E-mail reply bounced, so let's see what the web form can do.

From: Ton van der Zwet [mailto:tonvanderzwet@users.sf.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:33 PM
To: pedersen@ccsscorp.com
Subject: [vms-ports:discussion] LibreOffice

BASH:
bash-4.2$ bash --debug --verbose ./perltest.sh
if perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'; then
echo "result: all modules found"
else
echo "result: Failed to find some modules"
fi
perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'
syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
result: Failed to find some modules
bash-4.2$

For starters, you're throwing away the result of the backticks, which is where any error messages would be. Printing those messages looks like so:

bash-4.2$ echo `/perl_root/perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'`
Can't locate Archive/Zip.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Archive::Zip module) (@INC contains: /perl_root/lib/site_perl/VMS_IA64 /perl_root/lib
/site_perl /perl_root/lib/VMS_IA64/5_18_1 /perl_root/lib .) at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort

And it's completely unsurprising "you may need to install the Archive::Zip module" because that is not a stock module that comes with the Perl distribution. It's available from CPAN at:

http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PH/PHRED/Archive-Zip-1.33.tar.gz

DCL:
$ perl -e 'use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5'
$ sh sym $status
$STATUS == "%X00000001"

In DCL (unlike bash), single quotes aren't quotes -- they are symbol substitution operators. So you've substituted a symbol that has no value and run the equivalent of:

$ perl -e ""

What you likely meant to run was:

$ perl -e "use Archive::Zip; use Cwd; use Digest::MD5"

[John Malmberg]

E-mail replies to source-forge forums do not work well. Things are getting better. It used to start a new topic for each reply. As it is any e-mail reply will usually need a manual edit.

[John Malmberg]

Using an alias instead of a script fixes the quoting issues.

Eventually we should provide a script that provides aliases for all the perl utilities so that the environment looks like on Linux.

bash-4.2$ alias perl=/perl_root/perl
bash-4.2$ perl -e 'printf "hello\n"'
hello
bash-4.2$

This method should also work better for Python and Java, etc.