[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

[gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

[walt]

I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here.

For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke
dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice.

The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5
installed on your machine.  A gentoo bug report was filed by our own
Nikos Chantziaras -- who did not post a headsup to this list :p

The fix is to downgrade bison to the 'stable' version 2.4.3, as stated
in Nikos's bug report.

Happy week-end to all :)

Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

[Indi]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:50:01AM +0200, walt wrote:
> I'm surprised that this problem hasn't already been posted here.
> 
> For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke
> dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice.
> 
> The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5
> installed on your machine.  A gentoo bug report was filed by our own
> Nikos Chantziaras -- who did not post a headsup to this list :p
> 
> The fix is to downgrade bison to the 'stable' version 2.4.3, as stated
> in Nikos's bug report.
> 
> Happy week-end to all :)

Thanks for that. I upgraded my ~x86 laptop today and a bunch of things
did break but revdep-rebuild appears to have handled it.

I have bison-2.5, but am using libreoffice-bin which seems fine. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 20 May 2011 15:34:59 -0700, walt wrote:

> For you users of unstable gentoo: the recent update of 'icu' broke
> dozens of packages (as it always does) including libreoffice.

Although LO appears to continue working fine without the rebuild, at
least for my basic usage.

> The problem is that libreoffice fails to build if you have bison-2.5
> installed on your machine.  A gentoo bug report was filed by our own
> Nikos Chantziaras -- who did not post a headsup to this list :p
> 
> The fix is to downgrade bison to the 'stable' version 2.4.3, as stated
> in Nikos's bug report.

There's a patch to fix this without downgrading at


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