Bug 243376 – request for custom-cflags use and reusable configure step in openoffice ebuild

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description djinnZ 2008-10-23 12:49:57 UTC]

partially related to bug #220026 (and its duplicate bug #234495).

As in subject can be useful IMHO to add a use flag in order to disable the filtering of cflags for testing purpose or to solve singular (only in the buggy hardware of mine I think) hardware problems than I have also reported.

Because OOo is one of the most painful packages to compile have the choiche to stop the build and restart it can be also useful.

Something as:

[-f "$(S)/configure-done"] || { cd "$(S)"
./configure
...
touch ./configure-done}

in src_compile funcion by example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2008-10-24 12:32:20 UTC]

About the first point: I've answered that before (if you search): I see no gain in making it easier to break the build and me than having to deal with bogus bug-reports.

About continuing the build: Would be nice indeed, if you want that provide a working patch (= no priority for me atm)

[Comment 2 Constantin Baranov 2008-11-04 13:26:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> About the first point: I've answered that before (if you search): I see no gain
> in making it easier to break the build and me than having to deal with bogus
> bug-reports.

USE=custom-cflags is marked as 'not supported' in other packages, so it's unreasonable to speak about its danger. On the other hand, OOo runs a bit faster when compiled with -O2 (I have successfully done it on default/linux/amd64/2008.0 with gcc-4.3.2).

[Comment 3 djinnZ 2008-12-14 19:13:36 UTC]

Created attachment 175273 [details]
ebuild used for OOo 3.0

[Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2011-03-16 21:40:23 UTC]

openoffice is on the way out, so see bug #355981 for libreoffice instead