ports/167441: editors/libreoffice - Unable to print

[Peter Jeremy]

>Number:         167441
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       editors/libreoffice - Unable to print
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 30 06:00:26 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Jeremy
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD server.vk2pj.dyndns.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #15: Thu Feb 2 11:02:29 EST 2012 root at server.vk2pj.dyndns.org:/var/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64
libreoffice-3.5.2_2

>Description:
	By default, LibreOffice has no printers available.  According to the
	Help, printers should be installed using spadmin (this is similar to
	OpenOffice.org) but when I start it, I get a popup window stating "No
	printers can be installed because the file system is read-only."  This
	error message is obviously wrong because I don't have any read-only
	filesystems.

	After spending some time poring over kdump output and the source code,
	I've ascertained that the problem is that the LibreOffice port doesn't
	install any driver (PPD) files - it doesn't even create the relevant
	directory.

	After looking through the output of "configure --help" and the port
	Makefiles, this appears to be a bug in the port.  Tracking down this
	bug was made unnecessarily hard due the erroneous error message.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Install LO.
	Run /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/spadmin

>Fix:
	The immediate bug is "--without-ppds" in the port Makefile.  I'm
	not sure if further changes (eg fetching driver files) is necessary.
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