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[Bryant <acutiator@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm a new developer who has successfully gotten KiCAD to compile on a 
Ubuntu 12.04 that I have following the instructions at 
http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/DEV/Building+KiCad+on+Linux. I run 
Fedora 20 on my laptop currently, and I'm been working to follow these 
Debian/Ubuntu-specific instructions using the yum packager on Fedora, 
but I've currently run into trouble.

As of right now the `cmake ...` command executes successfully, but when 
I run make I see the following"
acutiator /m/B/P/k/build> make
[  0%] Performing patch step for 'boost'
Plugin "Bzrtools" is not up to date with installed Bazaar version 2.6.0.
There should be a newer version of Bzrtools available, e.g. 2.6.
bzr: ERROR: Error invoking patch: No such file or directory

make[2]: *** 
[../.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-patch] Error 3
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

1. It looks like this problem was that `patch` isn't installed as part 
of the Fedora build tools package. Can this be added to the cmake prereq 
checking process at the start.

2. So my questions are, is the bzrtools version mismatch a problem? I 
get these warnings a bunch.

3. What is the process for modifying the Building KiCAD pages on the 
wiki at kicad-pcb.org? On the FAQ at kicad-pcb.org it mentions that one 
should edit the wiki at SourceForge, which is currently down. Where and 
how can I add instructions for building KiCAD on Fedora?

4. Since I already have this email going, is there any desire to have 
something like a list of easy bugs/features for newbies to tackle? This 
is something that has been incredibly successful for LibreOffice in 
recruiting new developers 
[https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks]. Mesa has 
also adopted this strategy and it seems to be working based on the 
mailing list activity [http://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/NewbieProjects/]. 
Would it be worthwhile to compile a list of easy hacks for new comers to 
start with?

Bryant