I tried this in an empty folder and found that: Yes, rawbuild is created by running make in loroot. And yes, bin/unpack contains code to create the rawbuild directory. (line 310)
However, the instructions at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development#Required_Libraries.2FDepscontain no mention of this, and will confuse a novice developer (such as myself. This email is the reason I am now able to build LO from source, which my computer is currently in the middle of doing.) So I guess we need to update both Code_Overview and Development David Norton On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 02:01, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com>wrote: > Hi Terrell, > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:07 -0400, Terrell Prude' Jr. wrote: > > I'm attempting to get a proper development environment to build > > LibreOffice. Pulled a clone of the git repository, and it looks like I > > have everything except for the loroot/rawbuild directory. Problem: > > looks like the rawbuild directory is needed for building LibreOffice. > > Here's what I did. > .. > > After that, an "ls " shows everything on the development Wiki page > > except for rawbuild/. > > Odd :-) it is possible that rawbuild is created by 'bin/unpack' > which > is run as you do your first 'make' - if so, we should update the wiki > page that describes the directories; can you test & see ? > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Code_Overview > > Thanks ! > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot > > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice >
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