Thanks for the information. Now I know what I did wrong, I did run configure again but not in a new shell (forgot the environment variables).
I think the real hazzle is to understand the process, once you get the initial build done and understand a bit about the build/makefiles it is pretty clean. I worked in another project, where the build required you to open 3 shells, and start different commands at different stages, that was challenging compared to this :-) have a nice day. jan I. On 25 October 2012 11:03, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote: > On 24.10.2012 18:54, jan iversen wrote: > >> If I do a "svn update trunk" (I have all sources stored in directory >> trunk", do I then need to run configure again ??? >> > > In most cases you don't need to run configure again. > > > my system seems to be spinning, after "svn update" I cannot run "build" in >> the single directories that all worked before "svn update". >> >> Simple question, hopefully simple answer :-) >> > > The most simple answer is: do a clean build :-/ > > A less simple answer is in the rules of thumb below: > > 1. if the configure.in file was modified you need to run "autoconf", then > "configure", and so on. Best in a new shell because they communicate with > environment variables > > 2. if dependencies to external libraries were updated you need to run > "bootstrap" again > > 3. if the interfaces of some modules changed then going into > instsetoo_native and running "build --all" is recommended. There are issues > with that though [1] that the buildbots suffer from in their "incremental > builds" (as opposed to their "clean builds"). > > If there were not too many revisions since the last update then the chance > that none of the points above apply is reasonable and not even the "build > --all" is needed. It doesn't take too long though and is usually worth the > time. > > This all shows that building AOO is still quite challenging. Making it > easier and less error-prone is a very worthwhile goal, even if in practice > this goal often loses against "let's add a new feature", "freshen up the > UI" or even "fix a bug". > > [1] > http://markmail.org/thread/**wmlhc5f5zaiiyu2o<http://markmail.org/thread/wmlhc5f5zaiiyu2o> > > Herbert >
