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[Joseph Chen <joseph.chen59@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/26/2015 12:46 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Ahh yeah, that must be the issue here. I forgot that we only set a
> dummy bzr whoami in the deprecated kicad-install.sh script.
Thank you guys all! I am able to compile it after setting up this "bzr 
whoami"

--Joe
> 2015-08-25 23:37 GMT+02:00 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