Hi all, last time I answered Quanah's testing call I simply downloaded the tgz from gitweb and then compiled as usual.
This is the link I can find on gitweb: http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4;sf=tgz Hope this helps Marco 2012/2/1 Michael Ströder <[email protected]> > Nick Milas wrote: > >> On 1/2/2012 12:19 μμ, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: >> >> Any direction on how to test the build and to check out the branch in >>> order >>> to run the tests ? >>> >> >> Can someone provide a current source code (2.4 Branch) build as a .tgz? >> >> Or, can someone provide directions on how we can do it from OpenLDAP git >> repository? (This would be a more complex scenario.) >> > > I'm not an git expert. But here's what I did following some git cookbooks: > > $ mkdir /tmp/openldap-git > $ cd /tmp/openldap-git > $ git clone > git://git.openldap.org/**openldap.git<http://git.openldap.org/openldap.git> > $ cd openldap > > You now have a clone of the whole repository including all branches with > the default branch set to 'master'. You have to switch the active branch to > RE24. > > Clean up everything left over from a previous build *before* switching a > branch: > > $ make distclean > > List all available branches: > > $ git branch -a > michael@nb2:/tmp/openldap-git-**re24/openldap> git branch -a > * master > [..snipped..] > remotes/origin/OPENLDAP_REL_**ENG_2_4 > [..snipped..] > > # Switch branch giving it a local name 're24': > > $ git checkout -b re24 remotes/origin/OPENLDAP_REL_**ENG_2_4 > Branch re24 set up to track remote branch OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4 from origin. > Switched to a new branch 're24' > > Check which branch is active: > > $ git branch > master > * re24 > > Especially you now see the file CHANGES which contains the release history > within the 2.4.x release series. > > Ciao, Michael. > > -- _________________________________________ Non è forte chi non cade, ma chi cadendo ha la forza di rialzarsi. Jim Morrison
