Bug 36461

Summary:	environment variable breaks build
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Roger Luethi <rl>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Roger Luethi 2011-04-21 08:17:41 UTC

When trying to build LibO, I happened to have an environment variable RCFILES set.

configure seemed to run fine, but the build was soon aborted. Unsetting the variable fixed that problem.

The problem exists in the current version from git, too.

$ export RCFILES=foo
$ make

-> build error

The abort message does not seem terribly helpful when trying to debug the problem.

I could not find RCFILES documented as a build environment variable, either.

Now that I figured it out it is no longer a problem, but I thought I'd let you know that the way the build process reacts to some environment variables may be more confusing than necessary.

Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:04:40 UTC

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html

Comment 2 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 13:58:50 UTC

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 3 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:00:04 UTC

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 4 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:04:43 UTC

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 5 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:06:51 UTC

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian