[Slackbuilds-users] About owncloud-client SlackBuild

[Luiz Carlos Ramos]

Hello,

I tried to build owncloud-client recently and ran into problems. In
summary, it seems that when "make doc" is executed, an error is shown
pointing to a lacking "latexmk" utility that would be used to build
something.

Some googlings after and I found that this utility possibly belongs to
one of the "texlive" SBo packages (texlive, texlive-doc or
texlive-extra).  The first is easy to build and install (considering
also that it collides with a base Slackware package), but the last two
requires downloading ~1Gb each, and so I didn't feel comfortable in
building and installing them all.

By the other hand, one possibility is that the documentation could be
regarded as an optional thing in the whole owncloud-client package.

So I tried to build owncloud-client commenting out the "make doc" step,
and it worked.

I took an additional step and changed the SlackBuild to allow building
the package without "make doc" when latexmk is not available. Here is a
possible patch:

--
diff --git a/network/owncloud-client/owncloud-client.SlackBuild b/network/owncloud-client/owncloud-client.SlackBuild
index 0ee0dd35aa12ebbbbe3e4c756a6d4264719f68ce..5903474f96496aee2b695df0630ffeb75350267b 100644
--- a/network/owncloud-client/owncloud-client.SlackBuild
+++ b/network/owncloud-client/owncloud-client.SlackBuild
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 #  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
+# Modified by: Luiz Ramos <lramos.prof at yahoo.com.br>: skip "make doc" when
+# latexmk is not present
+
 PRGNAM=owncloud-client
 VERSION=${VERSION:-2.4.2}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
@@ -71,6 +74,9 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
   -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
+HAVE_LATEXMK=$(latexmk -v 2>/dev/null | head -1 || true)
+test -z "${HAVE_LATEXMK}" && echo "latexmk not found: will not build docs"
+
 mkdir -p build
 cd build
   cmake \
@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@ cd build
     -DBUILD_WITH_QT4=${BUILD_WITH_QT4:-"No"} \
     ..
   make VERBOSE=1
-  make doc
+  test -n "${HAVE_LATEXMK}" && make doc
   make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 cd ..
 
-- 

In the same case, I tested it and it worked fine.

This effectively makes something (which in the best of my knowledge is
texlive and friends) as optional dependencies of owncloud-client.

Of course if you eventually accept this change, it should also be
advisable to write something in the README file about this optional
dependency and the effects of not having them.

Many thanks,

Luiz Carlos Ramos
lramos.prof at yahoo.com.br
São Paulo - Brazil