Am 06.09.2011 21:09, schrieb Eike Rathke: > Hi Rob, > > On Tuesday, 2011-09-06 08:47:29 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I did a build overnight on a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bit), >> Fresh, clean, nothing extra installed. I had to even apt-get >> subversion to get started. > > Well, yes, some basic tools aren't mentioned in the guide. Actually you > could had even build OOo by downloading the source bundle generated from > hg and wouldn't had needed mercurial installed. > >> 2) We should add instructions for needed edits to etc/apt/sources.lst >> so the various required apt-get's work > > Strange, what did you need to edit sources.lst for? > >> 4) apt-get build-dep openoffice.org was insufficient. I received >> configure errors after that and had to install many packages in >> addition > > I encountered only two: libpam0g-dev and librsvg2-dev > But this after apt-get build-dep libreoffice on Debian wheezy where > openoffice.org is a transitional package. > >> 6) The bootstrap was pulling down dependencies from Hg. We need to >> get those into SVN or Apache-Extras, right? > > Yes.
Really? The "dependencies" (I assume these are the external tarballs) are not stored in a Mercurial repo. Nevertheless we have to find a place for them - or to get back to the old procedure that stored them inside the repo. At least those that have a suitable license. Regards, Mathias
