[Nix-dev] libreoffice build fails without chroot

[Michael Raskin]

>Unfortunately, I don't have the exact error message anymore, but it was
>related to running tests that wanted to write to /var/empty, which was
>disallowed in non-chroot.

LibreOffice expression per se has no mentions of /var/empty, however.

Neither has LibreOffice source.

But it could be used by some of the generic components as a dummy.

>This probably got introduced with libreoffice 4.3, as I've never run
>into it on 14.04 (which has libreoffice 4.0.5).

Maybe the change is in upstream LO build process…