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To avoid confusion, this was sent yesterday and got hung up
in the mailing list server and delayed. My post today
holds: problems finding the m116 source tarball.
Jack
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:28:34 -0700
<[email protected]> wrote:
>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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