ports/176967: editors/libreoffice crashes

[Gabor Pali]

Hi there,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk at ncf.ca> wrote:
>  I'm sorry to say that this bug still exists for i386 in version 4.0.2.

Yes, I can confirm this too.  I have studied the problem and it seems
it is mainly because Clang is used for compilation.  I tried to debug
the source of the problem but it turned out that gdb(1) (not even the
recents versions of it) cannot fully debug the Clang-generated
binaries and I could not make lldb (Clang's own debugger) work on
FreeBSD, and that is not even in the Ports Collection officially.

I then discovered there is a knob, WITH_GCC that enables you to
fallback to building LibreOffice with GCC 4.6 or later.  Building with
this setting finally I was able to launch LO on my machine and it even
worked.  So I would recommend to pass this knob to the Makefile upon
build:

# make install clean BATCH=yes WITH_GCC=yes

For maintainers: Although it said that it is possible to build
LibreOffice on the TDF wiki, this applies to version 3.6.x only.  For
4.0.x, there is no such information, so I would like to ask you to
switch back to building with GCC by default.  (See a patch attached
that reverses the current logic in the port.)
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