[Libreoffice] compiling from source tarballs

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Olivier,

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 14:47 -0300, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> I am behind a firewall and cannot use git directly. I downloaded 3.3.3
> tarballs from the site.

	Great :-) encouraging indeed.

> Are there instructions specific to build from the source donwloaded as
> tarballs?

	Not sure; clearly most people build from git. If you want to build
3.3.3 from git that is easy too: you can clone it in the normal way, and
then do:

	./autogen.sh
	./download
	./g checkout libreoffice-3-3-3

	in the checkout - and you will have what you need.

> 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)


	Right ; prolly in the src/ directory inside the 'build' module.

> Of course I am missing something, so can I have a light on how to
> build without git?

	Of course, you don't want to configure with --with-git - but otherwise
(I hope) it should work. Having said that the 3.3.3 build is pretty
baroque compared  to what we have in 3.4.x and master...

	HTH,

		Michael.

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