On Friday 22 February 2008 23:03:09 John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2008 10:55:16 pm Craig Ringer wrote: > > Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > > > In any case the only thing the original > > > reporter had to do to find out what he'd need for 1.3.5 compilation > > > would be to look at my source package scribus-svn available in the > > > Scribus Archive (our upstream repositories). It would've taken him all > > > of 2 minutes and he'd be on his way. > > > > Even if he wanted to build it himself (say, he wanted a debug build) > > it'd be possible to "apt-get build-dep scribus-svn", using the build > > dependency list on the package to set up the system. > > > > This information should probably be included in the BUILDING file, > > actually. I didn't even think to suggest it in the earlier discussion. > > I try to simplify the process by simply saying > cmake . > followed by > make > in the ../trunk/Scribus directory. > > Is there any reason why this should not work? The cmake command line gets > quite clumsy/errorprone otherwise.
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=install4 has the simplest instructions needed for an out of source build (the method we prefer for its cleanliness). Craig
