source files format request

[Don Christensen]

synaptical wrote:
> thanks, i figured i was doing something totally wrong. :D 
> 
> 
> --- Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Thats actually a Makefile, you cannot run it in sh, but you need to use
> make (and take care to keep the TABs in the Makefile, else make will
> complain).
> 
> Benedikt

I knew I should have provided at least minimal docs.  This is basically
what I do:

- Create local CVS view of the entire Xfce4 source tree (from memory,
   did it a while ago):

   cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs at cvs.xfce.org:/cvsroot/xfce co xfce4

- Put the makefile I sent earlier into the xfce4 directory

- For first build:

   make all

- Subsequently (I do this every few days to once a week):

   make update-new 2> /dev/null
   make build-install

- If that fails, it sometimes means that configure was not run
   when it needed to be (I think there may be a few issues with the
   individual Makefiles, but I haven't had the time to isolate and
   report them; I do know that too much gets built each time).  I
   then do this and repeat the previous step:

   make config

Some of these steps (especially the configure) can take a while to
run, but I almost always just kick these off and then get some "real
work" done.

Like I said, it works for me.  If it works for someone else too, then
that's a nice little bonus.

-Don

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
   "It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now."