>How much help does LibreOffice's own documentation offer?  (For I 
>have
>seen the ebuild, and it is an ugly beast with ~70 packages worth 
>of
>dependencies.  That's for the lightest configuration, which lacks 
>cups 
>support, any kind of scripting, and several other things.  It 
>would be
>much easier if we could just say, "follow this guide, but you'll 
>need to
>pass this flag and this flag.")

As far as I can tell, something like the following is needed in the 
build script:

====================
...
# Check for an installed Trinity and assume TQt.
# We need additional tests to ensure LO has been patched correctly.
TDEDIR=${TDEDIR:-""}  # to avoid "TDEDIR: unbound variable"
if [ ! -z "$TDEDIR" ]; then
  export TDEDIR="$TDEDIR"
  export QTDIR="$QTDIR"
  export QTINC="$QTDIR/include"
  export QTLIB="$QTDIR/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}"
  TDEOPTS="--enable-tde"
else
  TDEOPTS="--disable-tde"
fi

...

./autogen.sh \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-${LOVER}${VERSION}${PKG_SUBVER} \
  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --mandir=/usr/man \
...
  ${GITOPTS} \
  ${KDEOPTS} \
  ${TDEOPTS} \
...
====================

My build attempt failed when I tried to build the latest stable, 
4.1.4. I filed bug report 1799 showing the failure messages.

http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1799

Seems the expected directory and file location has changed from 
previous versions of LO. My guess is we need to push an appropriate 
patch upstream to the LO folks.

Darrell