Currently building app-office/libreoffice[base] is not possible due to the bad state of dev-db/firebird. However LibreOffice itself has reverted FirebirdSQL support back to experimental[1] due to issues in the LO codebase itself. It seems we could make `firebird` an optional USE flag when `base` is enabled, thus allowing users to have more features in the Base app. In my local overlay I've created a modified version of the ebuild and have successfully compiled and ran LibreOffice Base with Firebird disabled. [1] https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/firebird-missing-in-base/74254 Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 868300 [details] Modified ebuild with optional firebird dependency
Ebuild modifications always as unified diffs, please.
Can you find the commit where they changed that in the build system?
Created attachment 868310 [details, diff] Ebuild patch to make firebird dependency optional Sorry, here is the patch for the ebuild.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bdb5c1f500f7407fee070cf6dc74653dd675d80a commit bdb5c1f500f7407fee070cf6dc74653dd675d80a Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-08-21 15:50:25 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-08-21 15:51:10 +0000 app-office/libreoffice: firebird is no longer needed for base See https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/78240/. It's now considered experimental upstream and is not required for the LO 'Base' functionality. Bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127180 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/912703 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-7.5.9999.ebuild | 2 +- app-office/libreoffice/libreoffice-9999.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
