[Libreoffice] Improving the build experience in rawbuild

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Cedric Bosdonnat
<cedric.bosdonnat.ooo at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi fellow developers,
>
> We improved our build process a lot since the LibreOffice creation, but
> there is still something I'ld like to improve. Developers should build
> in rawbuild in order to create patches (or commit directly) easily.
>
> The current build procedure described on the wiki and TDF website builds
> in build/libreoffice*. In order to change that, I'ld like to do the
> following:
>  * Change the rawbuild/configure.in to have the defaults matching the
> options defined in distros-config/LibreOfficeLinux.conf.in
>  * Hack bin/g to have bin/g clone download all the repos at the
> appropriate place and create the rawbuild folder.
>
> This way, all that would need to be done for a new developper building
> on Linux would be:
>
>  git clone .../build && cd build
>  bin/g clone
>  cd rawbuild
>  ./autogen.sh && make && make dev-install
>
> Do you have any strong opinion against that?

That's how I already build it, so I'm all for it.

Norbert

>
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> Cédric Bosdonnat
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