[opensource-dev] autobuild on linux?

[Boroondas Gupte]

On 08/05/2011 08:41 PM, Ace Ace wrote:
> does anyone know how to set this up on linux
No real setup needed, you can check it out from hg ...

    mkdir ~/sldevstuff
    hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/lindenlab/autobuild ~/sldevstuff/autobuild

... and then run it in a viewer source checkout by specifying the
absolute path to the command in autobuild's bin directory, e.g. ...

    hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/lindenlab/viewer-development ~/sldevstuff/viewer-development
    cd ~/sldevstuff/viewer-development
    ~/sldevstuff/autobuild/bin/autobuild build -c ReleaseOS


Note that invocation with a relative path (i.e., in the example above
../autobuild/bin/autobuild) won't always work, the path has to be
absolute. Shortcuts and aliases like "~" and "$HOME" work fine, though.
I guess something in the scripts is sometimes eating the ".." upon the
recursive self-invocation autobuild does.

If you want to be able to use autobuild just by typing autobuild rather
than a path to it, add the autobuild/bin directory to your PATH or
symlink the autobuild script to a place which is, e.g. /usr/local/bin.

You might also install autobuild with easy_install or pip as suggested
on Autobuild Quick Start
<https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Autobuild/Quick_Start>, but that makes
updating python, updating autobuild and removing (uninstalling)
autobuild more complicated. (Or maybe I just don't know it how to do
that cleanly with easy_install and pip.) With the setup above, autobuild
won't need any additional steps to keep working when you upgrade python
(as long as the new version is still compatible with) and updating
autobuild can be done by simply by updating the repository. If you want
to get rid of autobuild, just delete ~/sldevstuff/autobuild and remove
the symlink if you created one.

> the wiki has no info on how to do it on linux
Yeah, the Linux build instructions really could need some update. :-\

Cheers,
Boroondas

PS: Just tried now and can't repro invocation with relative command path
not working. Maybe this has been fixed since I've noticed this. Does
anyone know?
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