Am 08/17/2012 12:36 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher:

On Aug 16, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:



On 08/16/2012 12:57 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 08/16/2012 06:34 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk:
I think it might be a good idea to include a link to build information on
the download page.

We could probably put this right under the heading for the source
section...

http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html#tested-sdk

Given the recent discussion on the [VOTE] thread for 3.4.1, it would be
great if we could get the build instructions better integrated in *one*
place and we can add this link to the source download section.

Comments? Volunteers?

Good idea. We just need to decide which webpage to link to.

I've seen in another thread that Dave had some problems to build AOO. It
seems we have (at least) 2 webpages that describe how to build on your
own. So ...

Marcus



Right, so here is a question/idea.

Andre pointed Dave to this wiki page --

http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO

we also have a bunch of build flags for each environment listed on:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOO3.4.1

Should we either 1) incorporate the build flags on Building_Guide_AOO page

or 2) link to them from the Building_Guide_AOO page

Link to them - the one's used on the builds include some choices that the 
various builders have made which don't exactly match the instructions on the 
various guides. For example, Jürgen has put downloaded prerequisites.

These are good examples.

I've changed the link also on ".../download/index.html" to refer to the Building_Guide_AOO page. Will be live with the next publish.

Marcus



Also, I will change the link on the source page in the project site to go to 
Building_Guide_AOO instead of the one that is there now.

Rob placed a message on the old Building Guide page, but perhaps it will be 
overlooked.

There are four pages in the wiki linked to from the README.

     Windows:
         
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows
     Linux:
         
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Linux
     Mac OS X:
         http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MacOSXBuildInstructions
     Solaris:
         
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Solaris

If these are no longer current then each should have a prominent link to the 
correct page:

http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO.

The README is at 
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/README

There are also build instructions in there, so that needs some cleanup.


Long story short, why don't we plan on putting a link to
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO

at the top of source section in other.html and deal with build flags 
separately...

Yes, agreed. But link to the development builds from the Building_Guide_AOO.

A reference to all of the build flags would help too.

Thanks,
Dave

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