Last week after updating my Arch Linux I noticed all bibisect builds
failed to run with:
loading component library
<file:///home/user/bibisect-linux-64-7.4/instdir/program/../program/libsdlo.so>
failed /home/tdf/lode/bibisect/core74/cppuhelper/source/shlib.cxx:311.
Thorsten also saw this on another rolling distro and I decided to look
into using containers to run bibisect builds. While this seems to have
been some buggy package update that has now been fixed, containers will
still be useful as I've been unable to run anything older than
LibreOffice 6.3 on this system for a long time.
There are a couple of options to run GUI apps in containers. One is
https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker (which also supports Wayland
despite the name). Another is https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
I went with Distrobox and will document how I set things up. I should
later add this to the wiki.
Install xhost package, on Arch it is called xorg-xhost.
Add to the ~/.bashrc of the host machine:
xhost +si:localuser:$USER
Create ~/distroboxhomes to store the home directories of the containers.
Create subdirs for the container homes.
For running bibisect repos 5.2 and newer, I picked Fedora 30. In the
init hooks I added libreoffice to broadly take care of dependencies.
distrobox create --name fedora30 --image fedora:30 --init-hooks "sudo
dnf install -y git java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 dbus-glib
kf5-kcoreaddons.x86_64 kf5-ki18n.x86_64 kf5-kconfig.x86_64
kf5-kwindowsystem.x86_64 kf5-kio.x86_64 libreoffice" --home
$HOME/distroboxhomes/fedora30
In the .bash_profile of fedora30, I had to add
unset XDG_DATA_DIRS
Otherwise the gtk2/3 backends would not launch. I also added convenience
aliases:
alias libogen='SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen instdir/program/soffice'
alias libogtk3='SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 instdir/program/soffice'
alias libokf5='SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf5 instdir/program/soffice'
For the oldest bibisect repos, I ended up using CentOS 7 as I could not
get older Ubuntu or Debian to run LibreOffice (was launched, but window
was not painted).
distrobox create --name centos7 --image centos:7 --init-hooks "sudo yum
install -y epel-release git java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64
java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64 libreoffice libpng12" --home
$HOME/distroboxhomes/centos7
In the centos7 .bash_profile, in addition to unset XDG_DATA_DIRS I
included an alias that allows running the builds from 50max repo:
alias
libo50='LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4:/usr/lib64/libnss3.so:/usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen opt/program/soffice'
For more efficient navigation in the command line with Ctrl to jump
between word boundaries and deleting words, I created an .inputrc file
in the centos7 home with:
# C-backspace
"\C-h": backward-kill-word
# C-delete
"\e[3;5~": kill-word
# Move with C-right, left
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
In fedora30 only Ctrl-Backspace binding was missing.
Now I can just run
distrobox enter fedora30
and go about my bibisecting.
For the container manager I use Podman. You can pick what you want by
configuring: https://distrobox.privatedns.org/#configure-distrobox
Ilmari
