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.
>
>


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