On 10/25/2011 05:44 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote: >> From: Calvin Morrison<mutantturkey@...> >> Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] Building qt3 >> To: trinity-devel@... >> Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 4:18 PM >> On 25 October 2011 17:12, Darrell >> Anderson<humanreadable@...> >> wrote: >>> I notice the developer's wiki has been updated and >> mentions that qt3 should be build with Trinity sources >> rather than built from distro sources. >>> I am building qt3 from the original 3.3.8b sources and >> applying my own patches. That approach worked okay last >> spring. >>> I presume any patches applied in the past no longer >> are needed because they are included in the Trinity >> sources. >>> Problem is I don't see a tarball for the Trinity >> sources. I don't know how to use git. >>> I would appreciate somebody updating the wiki to >> provide some guidance. :) Or provide sufficient details >> here, which later can be added to the wiki. >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Darrell >> you definitely need to use the version from git. you are >> right that we >> need to make some notes in the wiki about it as well. >> >> What you need to do is "clone" the tde repository: >> >> git clone http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde >> >> that should be all. from there the building is pretty >> simple. qt3 is >> in main/dependencies/qt3 >> >> If you want to add a note to the Wiki on the how to build >> page, that >> would be great :) >> >> Calvin Morrison >> > I appreciate the response but suddenly I'm knee deep. > > Everything becomes "simple" with experience and knowledge. :) I have neither with building qt3 from these new sources. > > To where do I save this git repository? Currently I have a segregated build directory where I store Trinity SVN. > > If I run the git clone command, how much am I downloading? MBs? GBs? > > Am I supposed to be building all packages from git or only qt3? > > I would update the wiki (and have several times in the past), but I haven't a clue about what I am doing. This all might be old news to those of you who have been doing this for the several months, but I am clueless about what is happening here. :) > > Thanks. > > > Darrell > > It is fairly small du -h . says it's 153M