[opensource-dev] Update Linux Build Documentation, please?

[Aleric Inglewood]

That document has been recently (pre-viewer-development and hg) updated by
me,
including adding all the caveats that exist for building standalone.

Which part does give you problems? Building on standalone never was
easy-- in fact, before my update it was impossible without being guided
personally by some guru on IRC. I think it was improved GREATLY though
and if you are still not able to compile it then that is certainly not
caused
by the document being out of date as you seem to suggest (and which
you could have seen in the history of it).

Aleric

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Tapple Gao <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm on Gentoo Linux, and the build instructions for Linux [1] have
> never worked for me (./develop.py cmake; ./develop.py build).
> I've talked with some people on IRC, and I'm now under the
> impression that develop.py is rather obsolete, which may be part
> of my problem. However, that doesn't really help me, as I have
> no idea how to use cmake.
>
> Also, the build instructions have a lot of caveats for
> standalone builders, which, as someone who has never even been
> able to complete a non-standalone build, I am rather confused
> by.
>
> So, I'd like it if someone could update the linux build
> documentation, and make it really easy for first-time
> (non-standalone) builders to follow:
>
> - Show how to use cmake rather than develop.py
> - seperate out standalone and non-standalone into seperate
>  documents
>
> As an aside, the Imprudence viewer team has really overhauled
> the build process, and as a result, Imprudence is the only
> viewer that is actually able to find all my libraries and
> complete a build from an svn checkout. I would strongly suggest
> you integrate their build changes into the main viewer.
>
> If there is really going to be more focus on open source, it is
> really important to make sure new people like me are able to
> compile the viewer from source.
>
> [1] Linux build instructions:
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux)<http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_%28Linux%29>
>
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> Matthew Fulmer (a.k.a. Tapple)
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