Re: [Libreoffice] feature/rip-build-repo - branch for removal of the need of the 'build' repo

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida@novell.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 18:40 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Jan Holesovsky <kendy@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In case you are interested to try to build without the 'build' repo (the
> > > rawbuild/ way), you can try to get the feature/rip-build-repo branch
> > > which I hope is going to become the 'official' way of building soon ;-)
> >
> > btw, I got it working on MacOS
>
> I built it on Windows too.  The only issue I've encountered is that the
> initial autogen.sh run checks for presence of certain dll files in the
> external module, and it fails because the external module was not there.
> The solution was to run g clone first, then run autogen.sh.

Argh, that is annoying. I managed to hide the git clone and the
./download step into the make
but you can't make before autogen... chicken and egg thing...
Any possibility to postpone these check or only do them if the autogen
option says --with-system for these dll (i'm guessing here), with the
understanding that if you are using the 'built-in' ones they will
pulled in ?

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> Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc
> <kyoshida@novell.com>
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