Eike, Michael and Petr, Thank you all for the tips Kind regards Olivier <div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/25 Petr Mladek <<a href="mailto:pmladek@suse.cz">pmladek@suse.cz</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Olivier Hallot píše v Pá 22. 07. 2011 v 14:47 -0300: <div class="im">> Hi > I am behind a firewall and cannot use git directly. I downloaded 3.3.3 > tarballs from the site. > > Are there instructions specific to build from the source donwloaded as > tarballs? > > I ask that because the build seems to require the tarballs to be in a > specific place, and also requires them to be a git folder (which they > aren't) > > Of course I am missing something, so can I have a light on how to > build without git? </div>It works here. I unpack the libreoffice-build-*.tar.gz, put the remaining tarballs into the src subdir and use the following configure options: --without-git --without-download Note that you need some more 3rd party tarballs that are normally fetched by the ./download script. Best Regards, Petr </blockquote></div> -- Olivier Hallot Founder and Steering Commitee Member The Document Foundation