Re: [Libreoffice] building release tarballs

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 07:11:49PM -0500, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Neil Leathers <neil.r.leathers@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.

Just in case it's what Neil asks: you can avoid the whole clone thing
with:

1) untar each tarball in the same directory
2) for i in */*; do mv `pwd`/$i .; done

At least that's what Fedora and I do as well.

But as Norbert pointed out, if you are not building a distro package or
something similar, you should use git so you can contribute back easier.
:)

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