Bug 100832 – wpd2sxw fails to build with libwpd-0.8.1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) 2005-07-30 13:08:27 UTC]

When attempting to revdep-rebuild, wpd2sxw needs to be rebuilt, with
libwpd-0.8.1, it fails stating that it cannot find libwpd >= 0.7

pkg-config shows that libwpd reports 0.8.1.  I noticed on the website that there
is a new version of wpd2sxw available, but I didn't see a source tarball for it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
wpd2sxw refuses to compile, and I have to re-emerge libwpd < 0.8 and have masked
it so that it no longer installs.

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-07-30 14:45:37 UTC]

and squinky86 is listed as maintainer, but left us

[Comment 2 Avuton Olrich 2005-08-03 06:46:58 UTC]

OK, I've looked at sf.net/projects/libwpd/ and it appears that wpd2sxw has 
probably gone through some pretty fundamental changes (along with libwpd-8.*). 
There is a new version of wpd2sxw seems to have: 
1) sources are only distributed in RPM (use rpm2targz) 
2) the directory name has changed to writerperfect(?).  
 
The binary is still named wpd2sxw, and it builds perfectly with libwpd-0.8.2 
 
It all seems very odd to me but this is how it is. libwpd-0.8.2 should be 
marked incompatible with wpd2sxw until this situation is hashed out because 
looking at the sources it's totally incompatible.  

[Comment 3 Avuton Olrich 2005-08-03 06:49:43 UTC]

Here's the URL to save a little bit of time: 
 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=62662&package_id=73612 

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2005-08-19 14:31:17 UTC]

Created attachment 66348 [details]
ebuild for wpd2sxw-0.7.0

I ran against this problem too, and created an ebuild for wpd2sxw.  It appears
the source ball for perfectwriter is nothing more than wpd2sxw, so I used that
one, and all seems to be very happy.  I keyworded ~ppc-macos as I tested it and
already keyworded the dependency libwpd and soon libgsf (which I needed this
package for to test)

[Comment 5 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-10-27 13:52:57 UTC]

I've cleaned up the ebuild a bit and added version 0.7.1 to portage now. Had to
push wpd2sxwbatch.pl to our distfiles-mirrors, as it seems to be missing from
the libwpd-webpage atm.

[Comment 6 Steven 2006-06-14 05:04:34 UTC]

version 0.7.1 works OK, while version 0.6.0-r1 gives the error on libwpd.
But version 0.7.1 is still masked (~x86) ?

It works like a charm for me, so maybe it's time to mark it stable ?