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Re: OSX developer help.

 

Hi,

This was very helpful.  Thank you.

Also the guide Jerry pointed out for InkScape and the OSX builds of Nick.
  Though I'll for now will use bzr.


Thanx,
Richard


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 02/09/2011 05:24 AM, Jerry Jacobs wrote:
> > On 02/09/2011 04:46 AM, Richard Tobias wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I only work with OSX and Linux and am willing to do some testing.  I
> >> have a newbe to bzr issue.  I can not figure out how to get the absolute
> >> latest version out of bzr.  I've been using svn for years, but can not
> >> figure this out.
>
> I've been using this little script to automate the "get the latest code,
> build, and install" process, which I run maybe once a week (more often
> when the awesome devs talk on the mailing list about cool new things
> they've added):
>
> matthew@broderick:~/Installers/kicad$ cat update_kicad.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> cd kicad.bzr/
> bzr update
> cd build/
> rm -rf *
> cmake ../
> time make -j 4
> sudo make install
>
> cd ../../
> cd kicad-library.bzr/
> bzr update
> cd build/
> rm -rf *
> cmake ../
> sudo make install
>
> To check out the two source trees that I need (main code, and the parts
> library), I did something like this:
>
> cd ~/Installers/
> mkdir kicad
> cd kicad
> bzr checkout lp:kicad kicad.bzr
> bzr checkout lp:~kicad-lib-committers/kicad/library kicad-library.bzr
>
> I've found that doing a "bzr checkout" is more reliable and more along
> the lines of what I want to do than "bzr branch", since I don't have
> write access to the main repository. I can still make patches to submit
> to the mailing list.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Matthew
>
>
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