Re: goffice integration

>>> I have just checked in some code to integrate AbiWord and GOffice.
>>> The new directory abi/goffice-bits contains all the files taken from
>>> the goffice library. Build system tweaks have been applied to check
>>> for the availability of libgoffice >= 0.3 -- if found the system lib
>>> will be linked dynamically.
>> Unfortunately, it did not work for system libgoffice; I have commited
>> couple of changes to abi_goffice.m4 and configure.ac, but now it does
>> not work for the peer setup :(.
>>
>> The problem is that AC_CONFIG_FILES() cannot be called conditionally, so
>> it cannot be used at all in the main configure script for files in
>> optional peer directories. The goffice-bits directory needs to be setup
>> the same was as the other peer directories used to be and have its own
>> configure script, etc. For now, assuming that the normal way should be
>> building with a system library, I have commented the line out in
>> configure.ac, so if you are using goffice in a peer directory, you will
>> need to uncomment it again, until the peer setup is fixed.
>>
>> BTW, is goffice 0.3 required ? It seems to work with 0.2, so I lowered
>> it in the abi_goffice.m4 macro.
>
> Oops, this will break the AbiGOffice plugin. 0.2 and 0.3 are NOT
> compatible for various functionalities.

Sorry guys; forgot to give -d to cvs up and made the assumption that
goffice-bits is a peer; the version is back to 0.3 and the makefile
included as was.

Tomas
Received on Sat Sep 16 11:16:00 2006