LibreOffice-6.0.1

tar -xf libreoffice-6.0.1.1.tar.xz --no-overwrite-dir &&
cd libreoffice-6.0.1.1

install -dm755 external/tarballs &&
ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-dictionaries-6.0.1.1.tar.xz external/tarballs/ &&
ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-help-6.0.1.1.tar.xz         external/tarballs/

ln -sv ../../../libreoffice-translations-6.0.1.1.tar.xz external/tarballs/

export LO_PREFIX=<PREFIX>

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 &&

./autogen.sh --prefix=$LO_PREFIX         \
             --sysconfdir=/etc           \
             --with-vendor=BLFS          \
             --with-lang='fr en-GB'      \
             --with-help                 \
             --with-myspell-dicts        \
             --with-alloc=system         \
             --without-junit             \
             --without-system-dicts      \
             --disable-dconf             \
             --disable-odk               \
             --enable-release-build=yes  \
             --enable-python=system      \
             --with-system-apr           \
             --with-system-boost         \
             --with-system-cairo         \
             --with-system-clucene       \
             --with-system-curl          \
             --with-system-expat         \
             --with-system-graphite      \
             --with-system-harfbuzz      \
             --with-system-icu           \
             --with-system-jpeg          \
             --with-system-lcms2         \
             --with-system-libatomic_ops \
             --with-system-libpng        \
             --with-system-libxml        \
             --with-system-neon          \
             --with-system-nss           \
             --with-system-odbc          \
             --with-system-openldap      \
             --with-system-openssl       \
             --with-system-poppler       \
             --with-system-postgresql    \
             --with-system-redland       \
             --with-system-serf          \
             --with-system-zlib

make build-nocheck

make distro-pack-install

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
  mkdir -vp /usr/share/pixmaps
  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

update-desktop-database

Command Explanations

sed -e ...: The first sed prevents compression of the manual pages and the second one prevents the install from failing.

--with-vendor=BLFS: This switch sets BLFS as the vendor which is mentioned when you click "About" from the Help menu on the toolbar.

--with-lang='fr en-GB': This switch sets what languages to support. To list several languages, separate them with a space. For all languages, use --with-lang=ALL.

--with-help: Without this switch, the help files are not built.

--with-myspell-dicts: This switch adds myspell dictionaries to the LibreOffice installation set.

--with-alloc=system: This switch tells LibreOffice to use the system allocator instead of its internal one.

--with-system-boost: This switch enables using system boost. From time to time, recent versions of boost break the build of libreoffice. In this case, it is possible to use the bundled copy of boost, by removing this flag.

--disable-dconf: This switch disables compiling LibreOffice with the GNOME DConf configuration system support.

--without-junit: This switch disables the HSQLDB tests (the HSQLDB driver is written in Java). If you want to run the tests, be sure to install junit.jar and hamcrest.jar in /usr/share/java .

--without-system-dicts: This switch disables use of dictionaries from system paths, so the ones installed by this package are used.

--disable-odk: This switch disables installing the office development kit. Remove if you want to develop a LibreOffice based application.

--enable-release-build=yes: This switch enables a Release Build. LibreOffice can be built as a Release Build or as a Developer Build, because their default installation paths and user profile paths are different. Developer Build displays the words "Dev" and "Beta" in several places (e.g, menu and splash screen).

--enable-python=system: This switch tells LibreOffice to use installed Python 3 to build the translations instead of the bundled one.

--with-system-*: These switches prevent LibreOffice from trying to compile its own versions of these dependencies. If you've not installed some of the dependencies, remove the corresponding switches.

--with-parallelism=<count>: This switch tells LibreOffice to use <count> CPU cores to compile in parallel. (Do not include literal angle brackets.) The default is to use all available cores on the system.

--disable-cups: Use this switch if you don't need printing support.

--disable-dbus: Use this switch if you've not installed D-Bus-1.8.0 or later. It also disables Bluetooth support and font install via PackageKit.

--disable-firebird-sdbc: By default, the ability to connect to a firebird database is enabled. Add this switch if you do not need that feature.

--disable-gstreamer-1-0: Use this switch if you have not installed gst-plugins-base-1.12.4.

--disable-gtk3: Use this switch if you have not installed GTK+-3, or if you have installed it but wish to use GTK+-2 (the menu icons differ). Note that a GTK+-3 build still requires GTK+-2 to build the gtk-plugin.

--disable-postgresql-sdbc: This switch disables compiling LibreOffice with the ability to connect to a PostgreSQL database. Use it if you have not installed PostgreSQL and you do not want LibreOffice to compile its bundled copy.

--without-fonts: LibreOffice includes a number of third-party TrueType fonts. If you have already installed some or all of the same fonts, you may prefer to use the system versions.

--without-java: This switch disables Java support in LibreOffice. Java is needed for the HSQLDB driver, which allows reading databases created by other programs into libreoffice base.

make distro-pack-install: this does a normal install, but if you add a DESTDIR environment variable it will also install a lot of (text) gid_Module_* files in the DESTDIR, to help distributions which want to break the package into parts.