I used Peter's previous reply to me to update the build instructions here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Corinthia/Build+instructions
I can't check it (since a virtual box will not run very well on my little machine), but in theory, this should be correct, or, at least a little closer to what we have currently. Ian, does this match your experience? G On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Ian C <i...@amham.net> wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > I can see that the tests pass now. > > And dfconvert does not handle odf documents yet? What is the progress with > that? > > I can at least help test that if there is any progress there. If not I may > try and start something. > All pointers accepted. Contact me directly if you wish. > > Cheers, > > Ian > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Peter Kelly <pmke...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi Ian - unfortunately the documentation is out of date; something we > need > > to fix. Sorry about that. > > > > Most stuff has been moved out of dfutil now, and there’s two new programs > > called dfconvert and dftest. > > > > For dfconvert, run it without arguments and will give you instructions. > > > > For dftest, give it a single command-line argument pointing to the root > of > > the repository, and it will find all the test cases and run them. There’s > > no longer a separate “tests” directory; we’ve split the code up into > > different modules (e.g. Core, OOXML, etc.) and each has it’s own test > > directory. dftest searches through all the directories recursively to > find > > the necessary files. > > > > — > > Dr Peter M. Kelly > > pmke...@apache.org > > > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key < > http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > > > > > On 9 Apr 2015, at 6:22 pm, Ian C <i...@amham.net> wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > after upgrading my system (now Fedora 21) I have been able to build > > > Corinthia. > > > > > > A couple of points > > > > > > I had to clone it from github, the Apache links did not work, neither > of > > > those mentioned on the top level page. > > > > > > > > > Build instructions... > > > > > > We need to make it explicit that the development packages for libxml2 > and > > > SDL2lib are required. > > > Oh and SDL2_image as well. > > > > > > Once I had those the build went ok. > > > > > > The documentation then says run > > > > > > dfutil -test $DOCFORMATS_DIR/tests to run some automatic tests. > > > > > > There is no tests directory. I see a bunch under the Editor directory. > > > > > > Anyway I tried to convert some documents with dfutil. Which didn't > seem > > to > > > work. > > > (and as part of the instructions we need to explain that dfutil etc > need > > to > > > be in the PATH or run via a direct path) > > > > > > I created a trivial html. > > > And was able to generate a docx. However only via dfconvert create.... > > > dfutil didn't work for me. > > > > > > I was able to run dfutil and get a plain text/xml dump of the docx. > > > > > > I can open the docx in Caligra and see my content. > > > > > > I don't seem to have as much time as I hoped but will still keep an eye > > out > > > and chip in if and when... > > > > > > At least I have something running now. > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Ian C > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Ian C > -- Visit my Coding Diary: http://gabriela-gibson.blogspot.com/
