add more instruction on building s4

Matthieu Patou mat+Informatique.Samba at matws.net
Fri Mar 26 11:07:06 MDT 2010


On 26/03/2010 19:50, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> Yeah, okay the content is acceptable I think (hope also for all others 
> - if not please complain).
>
> One issue left: in the text there are some typos: would you like to 
> fix them or should I try to do that?
>
> Matthias
>
> Matthieu Patou wrote:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> So I reworded the quick howto because I _really_ think that these 
>> instruction are useful and can help s4 beginners to go further when 
>> they face a compilation error that is due to subtle changes in the 
>> pidl that are not catched up correctly by our current build system.
>>
>> Matthieu
>> On 24/03/2010 19:54, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
>>> Hi Matthieu!
>>>
>>> + "./autogen.sh": This script is already described a few lines 
>>> earlier (in the sense as "if you don't use a packaged version you 
>>> first need to...")
>>>
>>> + "make idl_full": You don't really need to use this - it works also 
>>> without in most cases ("make" should recompile the IDLs when 
>>> needed). Only under special circumstances (major IDL changes) this 
>>> could be useful - but then it isn't said that the normal build works 
>>> - so you probably anyway need the full rebuild.
>>>
>>> So I think this patch isn't really needed.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>> Matthieu Patou wrote:
>>>> See the patch.
>>>>
>>>> Matthieu.
>>>
>>
>
be my guest I always been quite weak in speeling !


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