Re: Backporting Libreoffice to Ubuntu Precise
Hi,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:44:48AM +0100, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
> I may was confused by the Ubuntu branches in the Debian git repository ;-)
Yeah, they exists purely for ease of merge, cherry-pick etc...
> > Unneeded. It's set by dpkg (unless Ubuntu broke it), regardless of whether you want to build
> > for more or just amd64 that line is severly wrong.
>
> We will build only for AMD64, but I made some tests to see what got
Which is still irrelevant. Just build on amd64 and you're done. You
don't need to reset OOO_ARCHS. That just says what archs are theorectically
supported. Not the current build arch.
> > for example?
>
> One example is for GSTREAMER:
>
> USE_GSTREAMER=y
> ifeq "$(WHEEZY_BACKPORT)" "y"
> GSTREAMER_VERSION=0.10
> else
> ifeq "$(PRECISE_BACKPORT)" "y"
> GSTREAMER_VERSION=0.10
> else
> GSTREAMER_VERSION=1.0
> endif
> endif
[...]
>
> > I've also noticed some ifeqs not working, for wheezy-backports I added # hacks then...
Yes, that is one of them.
> I'm not a Makefile expert, but I think there is some issues with the two
> flavours of variables[2].
[...]
> [2] https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/make/manual/html_node/Flavors.html#Flavors
Will have a look. Works (mostly - I have a other weird bug which might or
might not related, though) on sid, though so it's only important for the
ocassional backport and not for day-to-day maintainance... Patches
welcome ;)
Regards,
Rene
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