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Compiling and installing trunk on Linux
If someone could make a tarball or install package of a stable version of trunk I'd greatly appreciate it!
Problems running or configuring the software, commands & options, compiling, different platforms, using the interface, documentation, etc.
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danr wrote:I'm not at home to check exactly, but here's what I recall -
- I got git installed, that was easy
- The git clone command worked, as far as I could tell
- But I couldn't get any of the the git checkout commands shown there to work.
Now that I look at it again, I wonder if I skipped the first checkout -b command. That's quite likely, because the sample command there is for checking out the 0.6 branch, and I wanted trunk.
I'll try again tonight, but in the meantime, I think I can suggest that the instructions for the checkout -b step could be improved. I don't know what the options are (e.g. for 0.7 stable should I substitute 0.7 or 0.7.1 for the 0.6 in the example?)
Perhaps it could list the recommended commands for checking out each major branch as well as trunk? Alternately, what is the git command to see all the available branches for checkout?
The next issue I can anticipate, looking at the instructions, is not knowing where git will put the source once checked out. Once I know that, I can compile it just as I did the 0.7 release, and that I do have figured out.
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