Bug 154880

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-2.0.4 builds its own copy of berkdb (4.2)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	openoffice-berkdb.patch

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-12 06:01:44 UTC

Not sure if that is an intended behaviour or not, but right now OpenOffice builds its own copy of berkdb (sys-libs/db) installing libdb-4.2.
I've tried to build with system's berkdb and it still seems to work fine (although I'm not good enough to actually know where exactly to look for a change of behaviour).

The attached patch is what I've used... if it works fine, it would be an advantage in not having one extra library around when unneeded..

Let me know.

Diego

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-12 06:02:22 UTC

Created attachment 101731 [details, diff]
openoffice-berkdb.patch

Comment 2 Hanno Zysik (geki) 2006-11-12 06:58:30 UTC

Should be '=sys-libs/db-4.2*'.
For db-4.3 and db-4.4 support see bug 140809.

Comment 3 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-12 07:08:56 UTC

I'm not using java here, but using db-4.3, maybe version conditioned to java useflag?

Comment 4 Hanno Zysik (geki) 2006-11-12 07:41:39 UTC

Hm, true. db Java API changed in 4.3. And segfaults happen with Java code.
Well, I just hope to get that other bug solved somewhen so that system db can be used.

I wonder what takes so long...

Comment 5 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-12 08:11:20 UTC

As Hanno already pointed out Bug #140809 is the reason we are not already using system-db in OOo, so yes: Atm this is "intended behaviour", thought not really a chosen one ;)

Comment 6 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-12 12:08:32 UTC

openoffice-2.1.0 uses system-db now, so closing this