Ahh yeah, that must be the issue here. I forgot that we only set a dummy bzr whoami in the deprecated kicad-install.sh script.
2015-08-25 23:37 GMT+02:00 Blair Bonnett <[email protected]>: >> bzr: ERROR: Unable to determine your name. >> Please, set your name with the 'whoami' command. >> E.g. bzr whoami "Your Name <[email protected]>" > > The local build of Boost needs patching, and it uses a local bazaar > repository to do this. If you haven't given your local bzr a name and email, > you get this error message. Use the command given in the error message to > fix it. > > > > On 26 August 2015 at 09:34, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You did not tell us what exact system you are on, but you could try to >> skip the boost build with the cmake option, -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=YES, >> but only do this if you have boost 1.56 or newer on your system. >> >> Alternatively, if you want to retry, try to delete the >> .downloads-by-cmake/ folder under the source tree and rerun make. >> >> Nick >> >> 2015-08-25 23:30 GMT+02:00 Joseph Chen <[email protected]>: >> > Can someone point me to a good instruction of building KiCAD from the >> > git >> > mirror source? And What I missed that is resulting some errors shown >> > below? >> > >> > BTW, my same ubuntu has been working with "kicad-install.sh", but I just >> > started trying the git source tree building. >> > >> > >> > With the git source tree, I have done the following steps but soon >> > encounter >> > the errors after make command: >> > >> > jchen@thermaltake:~/git-kicad/kicad-source-mirror/joe-build$ history >> > [ snip....] >> > 1216 git clone https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror.git >> > 1218 cd kicad-source-mirror/ >> > 1220 mkdir joe-build >> > 1222 cd joe-build/ >> > 1223 cmake ../. >> > 1224 make >> > >> > >> > Here is the error on the make console: >> > -- extracting... done >> > [ 1%] creating 'boost scratch repo' specifically for boost to track >> > boost >> > patches >> > [ 1%] adding pristine boost files to 'boost scratch repo' >> > [ 1%] committing pristine boost files to 'boost scratch repo' >> > bzr: ERROR: Unable to determine your name. >> > Please, set your name with the 'whoami' command. >> > E.g. bzr whoami "Your Name <[email protected]>" >> > CMakeFiles/boost.dir/build.make:143: recipe for target >> > >> > '../.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_commit_boost' >> > failed >> > make[2]: *** >> > >> > [../.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_commit_boost] >> > Error 3 >> > CMakeFiles/Makefile2:60: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all' >> > failed >> > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all] Error 2 >> > Makefile:137: recipe for target 'all' failed >> > make: *** [all] Error 2 >> > >> > >> > --Joe _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
