[dev] Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Richard Whitehead
Hello, I hope someone can help... I'm trying to build Open Office for the first time. I'm an experienced developer on Windows using Visual Studio, but I'm not used to the unix/cygwin style of build. I've followed the instructions for building on windows and it all seemed fine (although the

[dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:27:39 - schrieb Richard Whitehead richard.whiteh...@ieee.org: Hello, I hope someone can help... I'm trying to build Open Office for the first time. I'm an experienced developer on Windows using Visual Studio, but I'm not used to the unix/cygwin style of build. I've

Re: [dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:26:08PM +0100, Björn Michaelsen wrote: so simple now with mercurial), but there is a also testautomation tarball, maybe you need to add that one? If that is the case, we should indeed update the docs to reflect that. No, we should fix the build to *NOT* require

[dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:39:51 +0100 schrieb Rene Engelhard r...@openoffice.org: No, we should fix the build to *NOT* require it if you don't need it. Actually, there is a lot of work going on in that area. see: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort/Split_Build But,

Re: [dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:08:09PM +0100, Björn Michaelsen wrote: Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:39:51 +0100 schrieb Rene Engelhard r...@openoffice.org: No, we should fix the build to *NOT* require it if you don't need it. Actually, there is a lot of work going on in that area. see:

[dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:27:46 +0100 schrieb Rene Engelhard r...@openoffice.org: Even now we do not (unless something changes recently which should be fixed) testautomatiopn for a simple build without running tests. True. Still, there are: - Things that can be done in hours or days (like fixing

[dev] Re: [tools-dev] Please read: SVN and HG server maintenance

2009-12-22 Thread Jens-Heiner Rechtien
Hi, the new disk has been successfully installed and the RAIDZ pool on the system has been resilvered. The OOo SCM server is now again working with full speed and reliability. Regards, Heiner Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Hi, the OpenOffice.org SCM server for HG and SVN

Re: [dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Richard Whitehead
Bjorn and Rene, I went to http://download.openoffice.org/2.4.3/source.html and got all of the source packages at the bottom of the page except the extensions. I don't have a testautomation package. I will try to find and download a version of this from the site. In the short term it would

[dev] Re: Build error

2009-12-22 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:39:41 - schrieb Richard Whitehead richard.whiteh...@ieee.org: Bjorn and Rene, I went to http://download.openoffice.org/2.4.3/source.html and got all of the source packages at the bottom of the page except the extensions. Hmmm, sorry, but something there does not