Bug 64911

Summary: Check strict version of bundled libs when building against external copies in ./configure
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen>
Component: LibreofficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: libreoffice, libreoffice
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillScript
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Björn Michaelsen 2013-05-23 11:44:17 UTC 
Our bundled libs, which come with an external copy (e.g. liborcus, libwp*) are wildly untested when not build with the same version as the bundled copy, see for example:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Fwd-libreoffice-liborcus-build-problem-td4056820.html

./configure should strictly check the versions that a LibreOffice release will work with. IMHO it is better to be too strict than too liberal (that is accepting external versions that accidentally work), as everything else results is huge additional workload for the QA.

So for example liborcus should be checked to be libocrus-0.4 for LibreOffice 4.0.x and libocrus-0.6 for LibreOffice 4.1.x/master.
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2013-10-04 18:47:56 UTC 
adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved EasyHacks for better visibility.

see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details

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