Re: Failure to build misc/libreoffice - pdfium problems?

[Niclas Rosenvik <nros%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:35:37 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:

> Is anyone else having any problem building libreoffice?  Is it
> just me?
> 
> The only thing that might be "special" about my setup is that I
> explicitly disable java support with
> 
>  	PKG_OPTIONS.libreoffice=	-java
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > With pkgsrc updated on 2019-10-19 at 04:24:32 UTC, I am getting a
> > ton of error messages related to pdfium.  I can provide the entire
> > 3MB log file to anyone who might be interested in looking further;
> > there's so many errors that extracting them seems pointless.  Here
> > is the first error I found:
> >
> > ...
> > [build C  ]
> > UnpackedTarball/pdfium/third_party/freetype/src/src/psaux/psaux.c
> > In file included
> > from /tmp/pkgs/misc/libreoffice/work.x86_64/libreoffice-6.3.2.2/workdir/UnpackedTarball/pdfium/third_party/freetype/src/src/base/ftbase.c:32:0: /tmp/pkgs/misc/libreoffice/work.x86_64/libreoffice-6.3.2.2/workdir/UnpackedTarball/pdfium/third_party/freetype/src/src/base/ftobjs.c:4062:3: 
> > error: conflictingtypes for 'FT_Get_Name_Index'
> >   FT_Get_Name_Index( FT_Face     face,
> >   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > In file included from 
> > /tmp/pkgs/misc/libreoffice/work.x86_64/libreoffice-6.3.2.2/workdir/UnpackedTarball/pdfium/third_party/freetype/src/include/freetype/internal/ftdebug.h:30:0,
> >                 from 
> > /tmp/pkgs/misc/libreoffice/work.x86_64/libreoffice-6.3.2.2/workdir/UnpackedTarball/pdfium/third_party/freetype/src/src/base/ftadvanc.c:20,
> >                 from 
> > /tmp/pkgs/misc/libreoffice/work.x86_64/libreoffice-6.3.2.2/workdir/UnpackedTarball/pdfium/third_party/freetype/src/src/base/ftbase.c:22:
> > /tmp/pkgs/misc/libreoffice/work.x86_64/.x11-buildlink/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:3935:3: 
> > note: previous declaration of 'FT_Get_Name_Index' was here
> >   FT_Get_Name_Index( FT_Face     face,
> >   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ...
> >
> > This is on a NetBSD 9.99.15 amd64 host, and building into a newly-
> > created sandbox.
> >


I have had similar problems with pdfium in texmaker. The solution there
was to not build and use pdfiums bundled freetype2 by removing the
references to in the project file and link to freetype2 using pkgconfig.
Perhaps something similar works for libreoffice?

/Niclas Rosenvik