[Libreoffice] building release tarballs

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Neil Leathers <neil.r.leathers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I am trying to find instruction for how to build the released stable source. I have downloaded the files located at http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/3.4.3 and am trying to find further instructions. Where is the process to build from released source instead of from development source control documented?
>>
>> it is not well documented AFAIK. you would need to download the 19 or
>> so tar.gz 9one for each git repos we had in the 3.4 series. untar
>> bootstrap, create a directory named 'clone' in bootstrap (if not
>> already there) and then untar the other repos in clone/
>> then you need to run ./bin/create_boostrap_links
>
> That is exactly what I am trying to not do. I wish to build the released version 3.4.3 from the released source. If I can build LibreOffice from the source archives that are released, labelled, and
> signed as the official source I would like to do so.
> If it is never possible to build LibreOffice from the source archives [snip]

I think I gave you 2 different ways to do just that... maybe I'm not
understanding what you seek.

Norbert