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[Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

> bzr: ERROR: Unable to determine your name.
> Please, set your name with the 'whoami' command.
> E.g. bzr whoami "Your Name <name@xxxxxxxxxxx>"

The local build of Boost needs patching, and it uses a local bazaar
repository to do this. If you haven't given your local bzr a name and
email, you get this error message. Use the command given in the error
message to fix it.



On 26 August 2015 at 09:34, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You did not tell us what exact system you are on, but you could try to
> skip the boost build with the cmake option, -DKICAD_SKIP_BOOST=YES,
> but only do this if you have boost 1.56 or newer on your system.
>
> Alternatively, if you want to retry, try to delete the
> .downloads-by-cmake/ folder under the source tree and rerun make.
>
> Nick
>
> 2015-08-25 23:30 GMT+02:00 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