Call for testing: LibreOffice 7.1.1 release

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 7 10:28:37 UTC 2021


On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 01:16:40 +1000 Dima Panov <fluffy at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> LibreOffice 7.1.1 release is out and office at FreeBSD team calls everyone interested to join us in testing cycle
> 
> Our WIP repository available at GitHub, https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports-libreoffice.
> Of course, we support ports’ OVERLAY feature by adding:
> 
> OVERLAYS+=/path/to/freebsd-ports-libreoffice
> 
> to /etc/make.conf
> 
> Poudriere users should follows next steps:
> 
> sudo poudriere ports -c -F -p portoverlay
> cd ${LOCALBASE}/poudriere/ports/portsoverlay
> git clone https://github.com/lwhsu/freebsd-ports-libreoffice .
> git checkout master
> poudriere bulk -j 122amd64 -p portstree -O portsoverlay editors/libreoffice
> 
> You can start the LibreOffice with x11 UI backend by setting
> environment variable:
> 
> SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
> 
> where ‘gen’ can be replaced by x11, gtk3, qt5, kf5, depends on selected build options to get a required vcl active
> 
> Qt5 vcl is already locked to use cairo font renderer.
> 
> Patches and suggestions are welcome!

With the 7.1.0 version I'm using the gtk3 backend again and haven't
noticed any problems yet.  If others can confirm that, maybe it can be
made the default again when you commit 7.1.1?


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