I did a build overnight on a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bit), Fresh, clean, nothing extra installed. I had to even apt-get subversion to get started.
I tried to follow the instructions literally, to find any problems that might occur. Obviously the typical engineer will work around these issues, as I did, but we might want to improve the instructions in any case: 1) There are many references to Hg repositories when the real code is now in SVN 2) We should add instructions for needed edits to etc/apt/sources.lst so the various required apt-get's work 3) We should explicitly state that the cwd should be main. That is where /configure should be run from. 4) apt-get build-dep openoffice.org was insufficient. I received configure errors after that and had to install many packages in addition 5) I'm not at that machine right now to look up the details, but I had to copy down what appeared to be a mingw-compiled file from the website and put it into the externals directory. I didn't see that called out in the instructions 6) The bootstrap was pulling down dependencies from Hg. We need to get those into SVN or Apache-Extras, right? But other than that it worked well. I build on a T60P Thinkpad, 1GB of Ram, a relatively old machine. It completed without errors by morning. -Rob On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Matt Richards <mricha...@gmail.com> wrote: > My build machine runs Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) with a 64 bit kernel. > > To get the deps needed to build OOo, I used apt-get build-dep on LibreOffice > package (as this is what Ubuntu is packaged with at this time) I figured > they're still fairly similar. > I did need to install the ccache package separately. > > I passed configure nothing special (followed the wiki's directions). > > Below is roughly what I did to get it building, (I am going from memory > here. Dug around my command history to see what I did). > > svn co ... path/to/source > > cd path/to/source > ./configure > ./bootstrap > mkdir /path/to/ccache/dir > source ./LinuxX86-64Env.Set.sh > export CCACHE_DIR="/path/to/ccache/dir" > ccache -M 2G -F 100000 > export CXX="ccache g++" > export CC="ccache gcc" > build -P8 --all (my build box is a Quad Core, with 6 GB Ram) > > About an hour later, maybe two. I followed the wiki's instructions to > confirm my build worked (didn't do a whole lot of testing), and it did. > These are more some notes, needs some polish before it ends up as > anything official in my opinion. > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matt Richards <mricha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Now that I've built OpenOffice on Linux with moderate success, I'd like >> to >> > lend a helping hand with the documentation side of things. As far as I am >> > aware, the existing (maybe old now) wiki has been migrated to Apache >> Infra >> > (via VM). Does this content need to be moved to the confluence wikis >> > eventually? I do apologies if this is off topic, there's been so much >> > discussion going on proving difficult to follow everything all the way >> > through. >> > >> >> Excellent. What distro where you using? And what configure flags? >> >> For the sake of this exercise we should probably track, on a wiki page >> (confluence community wiki is fine) what combinations we're trying and >> what corrections we'll want to make in the build instructions. >> >> It is not clear yet where the build instructions will finally end up >> living, but we don't need to solve that problem quite yet. >> >> -Rob >> > > > > -- > --Matt >
