When extracting the tarball as root user, the ownership and permissions of the directory the tar command has been run from change to non-desirable values: # mkdir src # cd src # ls -la drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 4 18:16 . # tar xf ../libreoffice-4.3.0.4.tar.xz # ls -la drwx------ 3 10003 users 4096 Jul 25 08:46 . drwxr-xr-x 149 10003 users 4096 Jul 25 08:46 libreoffice-4.3.0.4 When ran as normal user, only the permissions of the parent directory get changed, as normal user can't change ownership. This is undesirable for end users. Please fix it. We can fix it with --no-overwrite-dir tar parameter, but it really should be fixed not to do it in the first place.
You should also not build as root.
Sorry, but I think I mentioned extracting, not building. Even when *extracting* as normal user, the permissions of the parent directory got changed which can lead to big trouble, depending on what else that directory might be used for.
I confirm that. Need to create a build directory to extract LO, for this reason. In my case, it is x86 (IA 32).
the tarballs for the sources are created with http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/bin/lo-pack-sources while the permission change is indeed undesirable (and easy to fix), the ownership one is a self-created problem/see no fault here.
Christian Lohmaier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=5ca2b6fca9eb975886f6796e6086ddf79be387d5 fdo#82137 don't include working directory in tarballs The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Christian Lohmaier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3f37f7b8b0d99b274e2eadc4eff232ea670cb6fd&h=libreoffice-4-2 fdo#82137 don't include working directory in tarballs It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2.7. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Christian Lohmaier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=47cb8a41ffe7221814307ad72e58bdc735c1812c&h=libreoffice-4-3 fdo#82137 don't include working directory in tarballs It will be available in LibreOffice 4.3.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Christian Lohmaier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-3-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=780a9b98220a89b48a29526a18a79d365e7f82ce&h=libreoffice-4-3-1 fdo#82137 don't include working directory in tarballs It will be available already in LibreOffice 4.3.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
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