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Thank you.
I will reply again with the details.
Jack
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:40:30 -0400
Volker Quetschke <[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] wrote:
>> And, now I am confused, for the answer I got at dev was
>> that *I was on the wrong list*.
>
>And now I'm confused, I never saw that answer. Only Ken
>and
>myself did comment on your problem.
>
>Unfortunately the ml archive is broken ATM (issue 51854)
>therefore I cannot point you to the web archives.
>
>> If someone there actually
>> answered my question, the reply never reached my inbox.
>> That the online listing of messages in the list (today)
>> stops at several days ago makes it impossible to know if
>> something was answered which hasn't reached me. Go
>figure.
>File an issue, complaining silently or waiting that
>someone
>else fixes it rarely helps.
>
>>
>> Now, is there anybody on this list that can answer my
>> question? Others seem to be able to build OO using
>cygwin
>> on wintel, so I suspect I missed something that is
>possibly
>> an ambiguity in the documentation on building, or I
>really
>> missed a step. Anything is possible. The build doc says
>to
>> go from ./configure to dmake, and doesn't mention
>> ./bootstrap as a means to create dmake. For that, you
>need
>> to infer steps not given.
>
>Hmm, I'm again not sure what you're talking about. In
><http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html>
>there is an overview about what/how happens
><http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html#OverviewofPerformingaFullBuild>
>that mentions (briefly) configure/bootstrap/rehash (well,
>I admit it
>doesn't mention tcsh) and a step by step example
><http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html#GeneratingtheBuildEnvironmentandBuildTools>.
>
>What is missing? Constructive suggestions to improve the
>documentation
>are always welcome.
>
>
>> To repeat, my question concerns creating dmake from
>> sources. It is my present understanding that dmake is
>> crafted by running ./bootstrap
>As written in that document.
>
>> Right now, that fails because a file dmake.exe is
>missing.
>> Clearly, it's not in the source code. There is a
>build.bat
>> file in /dmake directory in the source, but it fails for
>a
>> long list of dependencies not documented in any of the
>> build documents I have found.
>bootstrap builds dmake, nothing else.
>
>> I'd greatly appreciate someone telling me what I missed.
>You could start with exactly telling what you did and
>where
>you deviated from the build instructions. All the output
>of your
>commands is required. (Unless you're able to recognize the
>relevant
>information yourself.)
>
>Volker
>
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