Re: [Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-29 Thread Francois Tigeot
Hi, Thanks everyone for your answers. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:03:42AM +, Michael Meeks wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 10:27 +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote: Well, I may become a package maintainer in the future but for that I need to be able to build LO from the released sources first.

Re: [Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com schrieb: Sure - and we are trying to fill out this niche; primarily by moving (slowly) towards a split build [ in fact openSUSE does this already ], whereby you can re-build and develop only one piece at a time - which is quicker: ie. just

Re: [Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-29 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 12:33 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Just had a look at the 'bootstrap' tree: it contains a full copy of dmake (even worse: with utogenerated files ;-o) - that would be my firt candidate for being kicked out. Generic buildtools should never be bundled into individual

Re: [Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-28 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Francois Tigeot ftig...@wolfpond.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 01:06:31AM -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, David Dumaresq dfdumar...@gmail.com wrote: here's where I have gone to get started:        

[Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-27 Thread Francois Tigeot
Hi! Now that LibreOffice 3.3.0.4 has been released, I'd like to have a go at building it from source. How does one install LibreOffice from the source tarballs ? Are there some instructions somewhere ? There are 21 different files such as libreoffice-artwork-3.3.0.4.tar.bz2 Do they all need to

Re: [Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-27 Thread David Dumaresq
Hi Francois, here's where I have gone to get started: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build You'll need to install git to get the source, so don't worry about manually downloading files. Anyway, it's all explained in the link,

Re: [Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

2011-01-27 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, David Dumaresq dfdumar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Francois, here's where I have gone to get started:        http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build You'll need to install git to get the source, so don't worry about manually downloading