Abiword-CVS ebuild

bugg · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 20

Note: Updated ebuilds are available - see later posts.

I've made a live-CVS ebuild for AbiWord. This will download, configure and install the latest version of AbiWord, straight out of CVS. Portage currently only contains stable (1.0.x) versions of AbiWord - since then it has gained tables, XFT2 font-handling, full unicode and bidi-text support and now uses GTK2. Plus lots of other things I can't remember.

To build this you'll need three ebuilds that aren't currently in portage.

dev-libs/libiconv-1.8 (submitted to bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12402)
x11-libs/fribidi-0.10.4 (submitted to bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12403)
app-office/abiword-cvs-20021218

These should be downloaded and saved in your local portage tree.

To make things easy, I've even created a single download that contains all of these ebuilds plus digests for the libiconv and fribidi ones. Save this file and type:

max_colby · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 11:55 pm Post subject:

Thank you!

I had started working on something like this last night, so it was great to find this out of the blue. It's compiling right now.

The only problem I've run into using different versions of Abiword is that the .Abisuite folder is incompatable with newer Abiword releases, so when switching between 1.0.x and 1.1.x versions of Abiword, be sure to delete ~/.AbiSuite

If you don't the toolbars will look really messed up.

michrech · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 12:35 am Post subject: Installing

Welp. It's installing/compiling as of 18:30 CST. Will let you know what it does when it finishes.

max_colby · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:04 am Post subject:

I'm having font problems (as I've always had with the 1.1.x versions) specifically, Abiword just won't load because it can't find fonts and spits an incredible amount of output to the terminal. Have any other Gentoo users had this problem?

As for the ebuilds, they work perfectly ... thanks again!

silvercat · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 54 Location: Canada

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

Abiword fails saying it can't find fonts. The only way around this is to disable AA by :
export GDK_USE_XFT=0
then run abiword. Anyone know a way to get this with AA on ?

/Line72

bugg · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 20

I've updated the abiword-cvs ebuild. The previous version required GNU libiconv to be installed, but this can create problems with other packages, so I've removed this dependency.

The ebuilds now needed for abiword-cvs are:

or you can use a tarball containing both of these, found here.

If you've installed this before, unmerge libiconv and the previous version of abiword-cvs. You may also need to rebuild glibc as it may have lost a couple of files due to the libiconv emerge/unmerge ('qpkg -c -v glibc' will check this). Installing abiword-cvs is done as described in my original post.

Thanks to all of you that have tried out the original ebuild and for your feedback.

silvercat: According to abiword's bugzilla building with perl 5.8 should work. I'm trying this myself to see if I can replicate your error.

max_colby: The huge amounts of output spewed into the terminal is debugging information. If it bothers you then remove the --enable-debug option passed to configure in the ebuild.

max_colby/silvercat/line72: I'm not getting any font problems myself. Could one/all of you post the last couple of dozen lines of debug output so we can try and track down this problem.

line72 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 212

here's the debug output

larman · n00b Joined: 11 Aug 2002 Posts: 48

I had this problem, and when I compiled abiword with --enable-debug it said that it could not open a font, because it was searching for times12 and finding it in a file it could not open (pcf.gz). It has no fallback capability, so I had to change my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf so that the 75dpi and 100dpi fonts were excluded. This way it found a valid times12 font. However, this does not seem like the debug output that was posted above. This may fix someone's problem though.
I submitted this bug to abiword.

larman

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

i can't print.

debug code after i hit print. i'm using the deafult options except i'm using lp instead of lpr since i'm using cups

silvercat · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 54 Location: Canada

Well... now i have a different problem... i added the ebuilds for gnome 2.1.5 put out by foser... and now i can't even compile glib 2.2... this is the error i get..

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I can't get this to build without gnome print. I have -gnome as a USE var and it still appears to use gnome pritn which crashes everytjhime i try to print. I merger 1.0.4 with -gnome and i prints now, but i'd like to use the cutting edge version since it seems to work fine.

i modified the ebuild and added this line:

heijs · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 10:39 am Post subject:

I noticed something funny, I emerge abiword-cvs some time ago, but it wasn't working because of my font.conf (or something), but now with the new glib-2.2.0, pango-1.2.0 and gtk+-2.2.0 it works perfectly!

I don't really understand, for my font.conf is the same (at least I think it is)...

Cleotis · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 53 Location: Belgium

The ebuild seems to work here just fine

Thanks a lot!

Let me know if I have to test something...

max_colby · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:08 am Post subject:

Can anyone compile abiword-cvs with perl 5.8.0 installed? According to some threads on the Abiword mailing list, this should work, but I haven't had any luck. Downgrading to perl 5.6.1 allows abiword-cvs to compile though.

Also commenting out the line "--enable-debug" in the ebuild speeds up Abiword by a noticable amount.

Thank you for a great ebuild!

Cleotis · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 53 Location: Belgium

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

No go for me either (perl 5.8.0)
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kappax · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 7:19 pm Post subject:

odd, for me it just sits there at the cvs command

max_colby · Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject:

bazik · Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:41 pm Post subject:

max_colby · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 4:33 am Post subject:

According to The Abiword devs, Abiword-cvs not compiling against Perl 5.8.0 is a Gentoo bug. Apparently this is know by the Gentoo devs though

kappax · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 4:38 am Post subject:

for me it compiles now, but when i start it it talks about not being about to find fonts.

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lars3loff · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 10:17 am Post subject: Fonts solved for me

Hi,

I found an solution for the fonts problem. At least it works for me.

Change this line:

kappax · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Fonts solved for me

lars3loff · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 10:42 pm Post subject:

that is right, and fixed.

sorry
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