[Libreoffice] Installation instructions for source code release

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, David Dumaresq <dfdumaresq at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Francois,
>
> here's where I have gone to get started:
>
>        http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build
>
> You'll need to install git to get the source, so don't worry about manually downloading files. Anyway, it's all explained in the link,
>
>                http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build
>
> Hope this helps!

Francois, note that this will help you compile the current development
branch, if you want to build 3.3.0.4 -- and exactly that -- yourself,
you need to
draw you inspiration from
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Old_How_to_build.

Building from tar.gz is not well documented, because most people that
build from source, usually have a strong incentive to use git,
and the few that actually use tar.gz are - maybe -  distribution
maintainers, which are pretty familiar with the subject matter to
start with.

Norbert

>
> All the best,
> Dave
>
> On 2011-01-27, at 10:54 AM, Francois Tigeot wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Now that LibreOffice 3.3.0.4 has been released, I'd like to have a go
>> at building it from source.
>>
>> How does one install LibreOffice from the source tarballs ? Are there
>> some instructions somewhere ?
>>
>> There are 21 different files such as "libreoffice-artwork-3.3.0.4.tar.bz2"
>> Do they all need to be downloaded ? And then, what should I do ?
>> Should they be combined in a giant directory or processed separately ?
>>
>> I'm a little confused by the sheer number of files to download. Wouldn't
>> it be easier to just provide one giant archive, like it is done for the
>> different binary platforms ?
>>
>> Forgive me if this list is not the place to ask this sort of questions,
>> but the only installation instructions available on the web site are for
>> the binary packages and the user list wasn't too helpful either.
>>
>> --
>> Francois Tigeot
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