I tried this in an empty folder and found that:<br><br>Yes, rawbuild is created by running make in loroot.<br>And yes, bin/unpack contains code to create the rawbuild directory. (line 310)<br><br>However, the instructions at <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development#Required_Libraries.2FDeps">http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development#Required_Libraries.2FDeps</a> contain no mention of this, and will confuse a novice developer (such as myself. This email is the reason I am now able to build LO from source, which my computer is currently in the middle of doing.)<br> <br>So I guess we need to update both Code_Overview and Development<br><br clear="all">David Norton<br><br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 02:01, Michael Meeks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@novell.com">michael.meeks@novell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Terrell,<br> <div class="im"><br> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:07 -0400, Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> I'm attempting to get a proper development environment to build<br> > LibreOffice. Pulled a clone of the git repository, and it looks like I<br> > have everything except for the loroot/rawbuild directory. Problem:<br> > looks like the rawbuild directory is needed for building LibreOffice.<br> > Here's what I did.<br> </div>..<br> <div class="im">> After that, an "ls " shows everything on the development Wiki page<br> > except for rawbuild/.<br> <br> </div> Odd :-) it is possible that rawbuild is created by 'bin/unpack' which<br> is run as you do your first 'make' - if so, we should update the wiki<br> page that describes the directories; can you test & see ?<br> <br> <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Code_Overview" target="_blank">http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Code_Overview</a><br> <br> Thanks !<br> <br> Michael.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> <a href="mailto:michael.meeks@novell.com">michael.meeks@novell.com</a> <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> LibreOffice mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org">LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>