Goffice fails

Lenore Horner LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 12 18:42:15 PDT 2009


On Apr 12, 2009, at 19:09 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Apr 12, 2009, at 09:30, Lenore Horner wrote:
>
>> I may have found a solution to my own problem: in the file foo- 
>> canvas-rect-ellipse.c  replace every instance of
>>
>> #ifdef HAVE_RENDER
>> ...
>> #endif
>>
>> with
>>
>> #ifdef HAVE_RENDER
>> #ifdef HAVE_X
>> ...
>> #endif
>> #endif
>>
>> This permits goffice to install for me (G4, OS 10.5.6, MacPorts  
>> 1.7.1, Xcode 3.1.2).  I haven't finished all the rest of the  
>> installation yet, so I don't know whether I've broken things or  
>> not.  If Gnucash runs fine for me with this patch, I'll try  
>> following the instructions for creating a diff and post it to  
>> trac.  (I have to figure out first how to get back the .c files  
>> without undoing my installation since they got cleaned up I think.)
>
> sudo port clean goffice
> sudo port -f extract goffice
>
> The original source files should now be back in the directory $(port  
> work goffice)
>
> But you should probably report this problem to the developers of  
> Goffice, since we do not have a maintainer for the goffice port and  
> I imagine this will affect any Mac user wanting Goffice with Quartz,  
> not just those using MacPorts to install it.
>
Will do.  I've also added the patch in trac.
Lenore



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