Error compiling Openoffice
 

I am trying to compile Openoffice but have the following compile error.

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/home/paul/t/OOG680_m9/canvas/source/cairo/cairo_cairo.cxx: In member function 'cairo::Surface* cairo::Surface::getSimilar(cairo::Content, int, int)':
/home/paul/t/OOG680_m9/canvas/source/cairo/cairo_cairo.cxx:202: error: 'PictStandardA8' was not declared in this scope
/home/paul/t/OOG680_m9/canvas/source/cairo/cairo_cairo.cxx:205: error: 'PictStandardRGB24' was not declared in this scope
/home/paul/t/OOG680_m9/canvas/source/cairo/cairo_cairo.cxx:209: error: 'PictStandardARGB32' was not declared in this scope
/home/paul/t/OOG680_m9/canvas/source/cairo/cairo_cairo.cxx:213: error: 'XRenderFindStandardFormat' was not declared in this scope
dmake: Error code 1, while making '../../unxlngi6.pro/slo/cairo_cairo.obj'
---* tg_merge.mk *---

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /home/paul/t/OOG680_m9/canvas/source/cairo
dmake: Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'
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I have installed Cairo but suspect some other dependency is missing but dont know what?

Paul Clark

Those are all provided by libXrender, IIRC. Make sure you have the latest libXrender installed.

In /usr/lib I have

libXrender.a
libXrender.la
libXrender.so
libXrender.so.1
libXrender.so.1.3.0

along with the rest of the X-libraries?

Paul Clark

I'm assuming you are using a pre-compiled distribution (don't know, because you don't have it listed). When using a pre-compiled distro, you also need to explicitly install the development files. These are packages that have the same name, but are suffixed with -dev or -devel. Use you package manager to find the development files package for libXrender.

you need to install the header files for "libXrender" .ether build libXrender from the source or install the libXrender-dev,or libXrender-devel for your distro.
and why not install the prebuilt openoffice , from openoffice web site OR the ones already made for YOUR distro ( whatever it is )
on fedora it is
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yum install openoffice
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are you using a distro that has app get or yum

I have been following the "Linux From Scratch" and "Beyond Linux From Scratch" books. So have installed everything from source.

I have now compiled libXrender again and installed it. I notice during the "make install":-

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 '../include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h' '/usr/include/X11/extensions/Xrender.h'

So is my problem that this "header" file is not found during the Openoffice compile?

I will fall back to installing the binary if I cannot make this work. But as everything else is from source and Openoffice is the last thing I need I don't want to throw in the towel just yet.

Paul Clark

or export the include file from ./configure
run for the instructions

or export the include file from ./configure
run for the instructions

Do you mean I should look at ./configure --help in Openoffice or libXrender?

your problem is with Openoffice so...

I was a bit confused over what "export the include file from ./configure" means but
after the pointer you gave I found and used the option
"--with-system-xrender-headers" and the compile has now worked thank you. Does that mean that this switch "exports the include"?