Bug 319839 – app-office/openoffice fails with sys-libs/db:5.0

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 14:48:38 UTC]

checking which db to use... external
checking db-4.8/db.h usability... no
checking db-4.8/db.h presence... no
checking for db-4.8/db.h... no
checking db4.8/db.h usability... yes
checking db4.8/db.h presence... yes
checking for db4.8/db.h... yes
checking whether db is at least 4.1... ./configure: line 14054: test: : integer expression expected
configure: error: no. you need at least db 4.1
make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
 * ERROR: app-office/openoffice-3.2.0 failed:

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 15:34:22 UTC]

Created attachment 231579 [details]
config.log

[Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2010-11-11 20:28:40 UTC]

so, so, so hate db, same crap every release...

[Comment 3 Alec Moskvin 2010-11-23 01:06:40 UTC]

Created attachment 255151 [details, diff]
files/db5-fix.diff - patch to recognise db-5.x

Here's a simple patch that lets the configure script accept db version 5. I've tested it with openoffice-3.2.1-r1.

[Comment 4 Alec Moskvin 2010-11-23 01:07:46 UTC]

Created attachment 255153 [details, diff]
patch for openoffice-3.2.1-r1.ebuild

[Comment 5 Alec Moskvin 2010-11-23 01:11:33 UTC]

Created attachment 255155 [details]
patched version of openoffice-3.2.1-r1.ebuild

[Comment 6 Alec Moskvin 2010-11-26 15:52:45 UTC]

I also found the commit to fix db version detection upstream:

http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO330/rev/f9f0f8294f08

[Comment 7 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2011-03-29 20:33:25 UTC]

app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2 is fixed.