[opensource-dev] Using 'autobuild' to build the viewer

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2011-01-28 9:45, Jonathan Welch wrote:
> After applying the scp patch autobuild configure ran
>
> 1) I would like to see the name of each file as it is downloaded, so I
> can see there is some progress being made

Me too, including whether or not it is being used from the cache...

> I hope these files are cached and not downloaded into each new cloned
> source tree.
> a) My internet speed is not very great
> b) I may not even have an internet connection when I want to clone and
> work on something.

They are, but at present the cache is in a temp directory.  On my system 
at least, that will get cleared out occasionally... it might be good to 
be able to specify a cache location through and environment variable to 
override the default.

> 2) Is this a problem:
> package libuuid has no installation information configured for platform windows

I don't think so - I think that package is not used on windows (that 
being the case, it would be good not to see the message).