LibreOffice-5.0.1

Installation of LibreOffice

tar -xf libreoffice-5.0.1.2.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir &&
cd libreoffice-5.0.1.2

Create symlinks to tarballs from the source directory so they won't get downloaded again:

install -dm755 external/tarballs &&
ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-dictionaries-5.0.1.2.tar.xz external/tarballs/ &&
ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-help-5.0.1.2.tar.xz         external/tarballs/

If you have downloaded the translations tarball, create a symlink:

ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-translations-5.0.1.2.tar.xz external/tarballs/

Due to the large size of the package, you may prefer to install it in /opt, instead of /usr. Depending on your choice, replace <PREFIX> by /usr or by /opt/libreoffice-5.0.1.2:

export LO_PREFIX=<PREFIX>

Fix build failures introduced by boost-1.59.0:

patch -Np1 -i ../libreoffice-5.0.1.2-boost_1_59_0-1.patch

Locales "fr" and "en-GB", you will find below, are just examples; you should change them to suit your needs - you might want to read the "Command Explanations", further below, before proceeding.

Prepare LibreOffice for compilation by running the following commands:

sed -e "/gzip -f/d"   \
    -e "s|.1.gz|.1|g" \
    -i bin/distro-install-desktop-integration &&

sed -e "/distro-install-file-lists/d" -i Makefile.in &&

sed -e "/ustrbuf/a #include <algorithm>" \
    -i svl/source/misc/gridprinter.cxx   &&

chmod -v +x bin/unpack-sources &&

./autogen.sh --prefix=$LO_PREFIX         \
             --sysconfdir=/etc           \
             --with-vendor="BLFS"        \
             --with-lang="fr en-GB"      \
             --with-help                 \
             --with-myspell-dicts        \
             --with-alloc=system         \
             --without-java              \
             --without-system-dicts      \
             --disable-gconf             \
             --disable-odk               \
             --disable-postgresql-sdbc   \
             --enable-release-build=yes  \
             --enable-python=system      \
             --with-system-boost         \
             --with-system-clucene       \
             --with-system-cairo         \
             --with-system-curl          \
             --with-system-expat         \
             --with-system-graphite      \
             --with-system-harfbuzz      \
             --with-system-icu           \
             --with-system-jpeg          \
             --with-system-lcms2         \
             --with-system-libpng        \
             --with-system-libxml        \
             --with-system-mesa-headers  \
             --with-system-neon          \
             --with-system-npapi-headers \
             --with-system-nss           \
             --with-system-odbc          \
             --with-system-openldap      \
             --with-system-openssl       \
             --with-system-poppler       \
             --with-system-redland       \
             --with-system-zlib          \
             --with-parallelism=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

The instructions below will only build the package without running any unit tests. If you prefer to run the unit tests, replace make build with make.

Build the package :

make build

Now, as the root user:

make distro-pack-install                                  &&
install -v -m755 -d $LO_PREFIX/share/appdata              &&
install -v -m644    sysui/desktop/appstream-appdata/*.xml \
                    $LO_PREFIX/share/appdata

If installed in /opt/libreoffice-5.0.1.2 some additional steps are necessary. Issue the following commands, as root user:

if [ "$LO_PREFIX" != "/usr" ]; then

  # This symlink is necessary for the desktop menu entries
  ln -svf $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice /usr/bin/libreoffice &&

  # Icons
  for i in $LO_PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/*; do
    ln -svf $i /usr/share/pixmaps
  done &&

  # Desktop menu entries
  for i in $LO_PREFIX/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/*; do
    ln -svf $i /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-$(basename $i)
  done &&

  # Man pages
  for i in $LO_PREFIX/share/man/man1/*; do
    ln -svf $i /usr/share/man/man1/
  done

  unset i
fi

If you have installed desktop-file-utils-0.22, and you wish to update the MIME database, issue, as the root user:

update-desktop-database