Re: [patch] Updating info to build Abi Word on Mac OS X

From: Martin Sevior <msevior_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Mar 20 2011 - 09:32:32 CET

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Xun Sun <xun.sun.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fabiano,
>
>> One more thing, Xun. Even that I try to compile passing
>> --disable-plugins to autogen, boost is required.
>> Please, see: src/text/ptbl/xp/pd_Document.h:66
>
> Good catch. This piece of code is not in 2.8 stable series. Not sure
> if this piece of code is expected to depend on boost. If this is
> expected, the we need to state the dependency explicitly in
> configure.in.
>
> Can other developers comment? uwog, Martin, Hub?
>
> There had been a discussion on depending on boost back in 2007, but I
> could not find a conclusion there:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2007/Apr/0005.html

Boost is now required for 2.9 and later. This was done to enable our
new RDF feature, implemented by Ben Martin. In addition redland is
required for the ODF plugins for 2.9 and later.

See:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/librdf/

Cheers

Martin
Received on Sun Mar 20 09:32:50 2011

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