Abiword 2.6.4 on Ubuntu (was Re: [sugar] Write needs your help)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> Sorry, what I meant is that, ideally, we would be testing Write in
> joyride with the 2.6.4 version. As we don't have that version in
> joyride yet, I think the closest we can do is testing Abiword 2.6.4.

> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu

It appears that the 2.6.4 sources aren't configured to build correctly
on Ubuntu using configure and GNU make.

./configure reports

configure: error: No package 'glib-2.0' found

(The correct name on Ubuntu is libglib2.0-0)

Then make says:

Building AbiSuite with [ABI_ROOT=/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4]
make ABI_ROOT=/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4 -C src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4/src'

    I can't seem to figure out which platform you are using.

    You should probably try using the autoconfiscated build system (rather
    than this, the deprecated and unsupported diving make system) by running
    configure (creating it with autogen.sh if need be) and using GNU Make.
    Using configure is a requirement for all known platforms that
aren't some form
    of Windows, QNX Neutrino, or MacOS X.

exit 1
make[1]: *** [fake-target] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mokurai/tmp/abiword/abiword-2.6.4/src'
make: *** [compile] Error 2


Does anybody have a workaround? Would someone like to fix configure to
work on Ubuntu? Do the makefiles need any change?

So far I have the old version of Write that Ubuntu offers accepting
and displaying Cyrillic and Greek correctly. I'll wait until I have
something up-to-date to test before proceeding to the other 30+
possibilities.

Kim, should we create a process for globalization QA? We need testing
for Amharic, Arabic, Khmer,

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