Hi, Thanks everyone for your answers.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:03:42AM +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 10:27 +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > Well, I may become a package maintainer in the future but for that I need > > to be able to build LO from the released sources first. > > Sure ;-) so what I suggest you do is take a look at eg. Rene's debian > packages, or Caolan's RedHat ones - that do a straight-through build, > and get inspired by them ;-) try here: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libreoffice.git;a=tree Eric Hameleers from Slackware has also some interesting scripts: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/build/libreoffice.SlackBuild > > Git is fine for real development but I'm afraid it may be too steep for > > me now; I'd like to play it safe, try to build a somewhat stable version > > without too much bugs. Maybe write a patch or two if something doesn't work. > > Sure, sure - but I think you will find (with the pace of change), that > working on master is better: it is already easier to build master than > 'stable' (though it does break occasionally), and it is far easier to > create a patch to submit from git: "g diff" will extract all your > changes, vs. having to do some diff -r's :-) In the end, I could not build LO from the released tarballs. I have bitten the bullet and now use git ;) I'll send my first patch in a separate mail. > Sure - and we are trying to fill out this niche; primarily by moving > (slowly) towards a split build [ in fact openSUSE does this already ], > whereby you can re-build and develop only one piece at a time - which is > quicker: ie. just re-compile 'writer'. That sure would be great ! I remember painfully 15-hours compilation times in the days of OpenOffice 2.x ... > Which is (at root) the background as to why there are so many things to > download ;-) - just a result of that work being in progress still. Is there any explanation on this process ? I've only found small notes in the wiki. -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice