422: abiword 2.7.8

I have upgraded Abiword from 2.7.7 to 2.7.8.

I have removed the Presentation module as it causes abiword to crash. Hopefully that will be remedied soon.

2.7.8 now does not use non-scalable fonts, so don't need to exclude any in ...er, I just tested, Dingbats and StandardSymbols still don't display properly, so I will still have to exclude those.

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Comments

compile abiword
Username: linuxcbon
Do you think ./configure --prefix=/usr is enough to compile it ? I used it and made a pet. What's weird is we need to add that prefix. It should know by default where, in /usr/. Without that prefix, it is installed in /usr/local/ which is wrong.

Abiword configure
Username: BarryK
"technosaurus figured out good configure options: http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/200907/abiword-277-smaller.html

compile
Username: linuxcbon
"Thank you. I asked in the abiword mailing list, they told me the default option installs in /usr/local/ So I only used ./configure --prefix=/usr and I got a pet of 3Mb, which is normal(I trimed stuff though).

even smaller
Username: technosaurus
"I posted this into the pet packaging 100 and 101 sticky - it helps the linker shrink binaries by 5 to 50% CFLAGS/CCFLAGS -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections LDFLAGS -Wl,-O1,--gc-sections NOTE: on certain programs that compile intermediate static libraries, this process fails. This can be remedied by omitting the LDFLAGS --gc-sections portion, deleting only the compiled executable(or shared library), then adding the --gc-sections back into the Makefile and recompiling (-Os and -O1 are just standard size optimizations the others allow the linker to "garbage collect" otherwise inaccessible areas with duplicate/unnecessary "garbage") also these strip commands tend to work well on most binaries and libraries (most binaries can use --strip-all) strip --strip-unneeded --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note (there are also some better options if we ever upgrade to gcc 4.4.1+)

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