[Slackbuilds-users] LibreOffice, Macro Security and libxml

[Luiz Carlos Ramos]

Hello,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 06:30:02PM +0100, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is just a heads up and a food to feed web search engines with a
> solution.
> 
> Recently, after a long time, I've updated my LibreOffice installation (build
> from source.)
> 
> I found myself in a situation where macros in Calc wouldn't work.
> Even worse, pressing Options -> Security -> Macro Security... button did not
> make _any_ window to appear.
> I was unable to fix the issue in the GUI.
> I ended up editing `.config/libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu` by
> hand and that finally allowed me to run macros.
> 
> But the proper solution came with the latest update (git commit 758b22928)
> to the LibreOffice.SlackBuild.
> This commit switches the build to use the _internal_ version of `libxml`.

Just out of curiosity... which libxml2 version is installed in your
machine?

I ran into problems with LibreOffice (an old version, 7.2.5.2, taken
from Alien Bob's repository) and the "new" libxml2 from Dec 10th. In my
case I couldn't open GPG-encrypted files.

As far as I could understand, this version has had also some nasty
effects in some (or many) SBo's. There was a thread about it here.

In my case, today's version of libxml2 (2.11.6, for Slackware 15.0) had
solved all issues noticed so far.

> And that change fixes that issue with macros, furthermore, pressing the
> _Macro Security..._ button shows
> the macro security configuration window properly again.
> 
> Hope this helps someone, cheers! :-)
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Andrzej Telszewski
> 

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

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