On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Boroondas Gupte
<slli...@boroon.dasgupta.ch>wrote:

> **
> On 08/05/2011 08:41 PM, Ace Ace wrote:
>
> does anyone know how to set this up on linux
>
> No real setup needed, you can check it out from hg ...
>
> mkdir ~/sldevstuff
> hg clone ssh://h...@bitbucket.org/lindenlab/autobuild ~/sldevstuff/autobuild
>
>  ... and then run it in a viewer source checkout by specifying the absolute
> path to the command in autobuild's bin directory, e.g. ...
>
> hg clone ssh://h...@bitbucket.org/lindenlab/viewer-development 
> ~/sldevstuff/viewer-development
> cd ~/sldevstuff/viewer-development
> ~/sldevstuff/autobuild/bin/autobuild build -c ReleaseOS
>
>
> Note that invocation with a relative path (i.e., in the example above
> ../autobuild/bin/autobuild) won't always work, the path has to be
> absolute. Shortcuts and aliases like "~" and "$HOME" work fine, though. I
> guess something in the scripts is sometimes eating the ".." upon the
> recursive self-invocation autobuild does.
>
> If you want to be able to use autobuild just by typing autobuild rather
> than a path to it, add the autobuild/bin directory to your PATH or symlink
> the autobuild script to a place which is, e.g. /usr/local/bin.
>
> You might also install autobuild with easy_install or pip as suggested on 
> Autobuild
> Quick Start <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Autobuild/Quick_Start>, but
> that makes updating python, updating autobuild and removing (uninstalling)
> autobuild more complicated. (Or maybe I just don't know it how to do that
> cleanly with easy_install and pip.) With the setup above, autobuild won't
> need any additional steps to keep working when you upgrade python (as long
> as the new version is still compatible with) and updating autobuild can be
> done by simply by updating the repository. If you want to get rid of
> autobuild, just delete ~/sldevstuff/autobuild and remove the symlink if you
> created one.
>
>
> the wiki has no info on how to do it on linux
>
> Yeah, the Linux build instructions really could need some update. :-\
>
> Cheers,
> Boroondas
>
> PS: Just tried now and can't repro invocation with relative command path
> not working. Maybe this has been fixed since I've noticed this. Does anyone
> know?
>

I use it with a relative path call often, and it Works For Me (TM) :)

Cheers - Stone


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