Bug 154880 – app-office/openoffice-2.0.4 builds its own copy of berkdb (4.2)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 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) 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) 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) 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) 2007-01-12 12:08:32 UTC]

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