Abiword 1.1.0

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

So Abiword 1.1.0 is out complete with Anti-Aliasing (I can't think of any other application which needs it so badly...), table-support and so on...

Anyone dares to do an ebuild for us non-programmers? ;-)

carpman · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:06 pm Post subject:

is it? where?

abisource.com only has 1.0.3 as latest release

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

carpman · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 2:14 pm Post subject:

this is just a development release!!
current stable version is 1.0.3

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

Thx Suka for the info.

Thats great news, i was desperately waiting for this.

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

He's got a point; this version finally has AA support!! And tables, which I'm sure many people use. I think an ebuild would be a great idea; I don't think it would be very different than the 1.03. One day I may get into making ebuidls just for this purpose =)

Alas, a shame I know nothing of making ebuilds at the moment.
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suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

carpman · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 6:41 pm Post subject:

there is not a 1.0.3 ebuild yet so a 1.1.0 will probably be a while.

Is there not a package in gentoo tools that automates most of the ebuild process?

sisob · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 7:22 pm Post subject:

I'm running 1.1.0 ATM and it's worth installing manually if you
want to see what it's like - but to make it usable you will need
to manually install xft2 as well
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carpman · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:37 pm Post subject:

this sort of thing show up the one weakness of gentoo portage, a dependency on others to produce ebuilds quickly.

Unless the process become easy enough for semi tech end users to build and submit ebuild we will always have this problem, or software developers start to create their own ebuilds

surak · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:48 pm Post subject:

there is a freeze on new ebuilds (which I guess will be dropped when gentoo 1.4 is released) so even if someone did make an ebuild, it wouldn't be put in the portage tree for a while. Also this is a dev release... once it becomes final I'm sure an ebuild would be out in no time

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

I know there's a freeze in "official" ebuilds, but that shouldn't prevent someone from making one and then posting it. All you have to do is download it and stick it in your /usr/portage/app-office/abiword directory (or whereever its located) or just emerge it from whereever you downloaded. No biggie. I installed the 1.1.0 from source and it crashed everytime I opened an RTF file (which are all of my documents) so that was a no go for me. Also, AA didn't work in it, but of course I didn't have all of my custom flags from make.conf etc.

Anyway an ebuild would be nicer in general.
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suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

To come back on this topic:

With the new Gnome 2.1.1 ebuild it should be quite trivial to build Abiword 1.1.0 (because of XFT2 support and so on), but I still can't compile it with AA enabled, that is what I get, anyone who can help me out?

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

That looks like a tough problem... good luck with it =) If I hit it and find a solution, I'll surely post it. How may I ask, did you get past the pspell requirement? What build / tar did you install to satisfy it? I have aspell emerged, which is supposed to be a replacement for ispell and pspell, but eh, the 1.1.0 abiword configure script breaks at "checking for new_pspell_config in -lpspell.... no"

Gentoo's abiword emerges fine, so it's spell checker is apprently installed.
Grr.
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suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

Sweet, got it to compile with the --without-pspell flag. Eh, I thought this version was using Xft. Is there a way to enable AA font's in the edit window? Most important part =)
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suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

Suka, you might want to try emerging "unixfont" from cvs, which is on abisource's cvs server. On their build page they have a ton of packages you are supposed to merge from their cvs server. A few, most notably wv (the microsoft RTF filter, or something to that effect). I think I've gotten by the unix font compile errors (same ones you had, just as predicted) but now am getting errors related to wc (in which leads me to conclude abiword is not working with gentoo's wc package).

Until I can compile the cvs version (wc, that is) I can't move any further.
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synonymousca · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 62

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

At the time of his writing, there was no 1.0.3 build...
1.03 is great, but that version is not very hard to build (manually) =)
1.1.0 seems to be giving me and a few others a lot of trouble.
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synonymousca · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 62

Heh, oops. I looked at the dates on the three posts above as I was typing mine to verify that the thread was recent, but didn't go so far as his.

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383

larman · n00b Joined: 11 Aug 2002 Posts: 48

Hey,
After hearing about this cool new version of abiword this morning, I decided to tackle the challenge.
I downloaded the 1.1.0-2 build of abiword that was posted in this thread.
I configured it with --enable-xft and --without-pspell. The abiword ebuilds usually apply a patch that makes it accept aspell in place of pspell, but since I obviously was not using an ebuild I just opted for the built in ispell checking.
I then learned that abiword now depends on fribidy, some unicode library. This was not in portage, but since it was simple I decided to make an ebuild for it (my first one ever). The ebuild worked like a charm, so I was ready to start compiling. Unfortunately, I hit the same snag as the rest of you - the missing FT_Face declaration. I then realized that FT must stand for freetype, so I added #include <freetype/freetype.h> to the file (xap_UnixFont.h or something) and I got past that obstacle. However, it later failed saying that it was missing some XFT declarations. These were not in my X11/Xft/Xft.h. So I was a bit confused. I had already emerged Xft 2.0, but I decided to do it again. The header files were right that time, but it also turned out that Xft.h #included freetype.h. I assume that they did not before that, because of the first compilation error (xap_UnixFont.h does include Xft.h). I tried compiling again, and I got past that part, but I hit another snag with Xft.h missing freetype declarations. It turns out that Xft was referencing the headers for freetype1 instead of freetype2. I wasn't really sure how gcc searches for system header files, so I just unmerged freetype1. I then remerged freetype2 and then xft2 to make sure everything was alright, and this time the compilation went all the way.
I hacked an abiword ebuild so that it would install 1.1 (I don't like installing things outside of portage) and it pretty much worked. I am not going to put it on here yet until I figure out exactly what the deal was with the freetype conflict. It also needs to be cleaned up (ie, the aspell patch no longer works for 1.1). Soon I will post both the fribidy and abiword 1.1 ebuilds, but in the meantime I'd appreciate any ideas as to how these steps solved the problem.
Thanks,
larman

suka · Developer Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 383