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[Joseph Chen <joseph.chen59@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can someone point me to a good instruction of building KiCAD from the 
git mirror source?  And What I missed that is resulting some errors 
shown below?

BTW, my same ubuntu has been working with "kicad-install.sh", but I just 
started trying the git source tree building.


With the git source tree, I have done the following steps but soon 
encounter the errors after make command:

jchen@thermaltake:~/git-kicad/kicad-source-mirror/joe-build$ history
[ snip....]
1216  git clone https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror.git
 1218  cd kicad-source-mirror/
 1220  mkdir joe-build
 1222  cd joe-build/
 1223  cmake ../.
 1224  make


Here is the error on the make console:
-- extracting... done
[  1%] creating 'boost scratch repo' specifically for boost to track 
boost patches
[  1%] adding pristine boost files to 'boost scratch repo'
[  1%] committing pristine boost files to 'boost scratch repo'
bzr: ERROR: Unable to determine your name.
Please, set your name with the 'whoami' command.
E.g. bzr whoami "Your Name <name@xxxxxxxxxxx>"
CMakeFiles/boost.dir/build.make:143: recipe for target 
'../.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_commit_boost' 
failed
make[2]: *** 
[../.downloads-by-cmake/boost_1_54_0/src/boost-stamp/boost-bzr_commit_boost] 
Error 3
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:60: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/boost.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:137: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2


--Joe