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authorStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2019-12-18 11:48:19 +0100
committerStephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>2019-12-18 13:03:59 +0100
commitc85588548bb016eb88247de75e303be2585023a6 (patch)
tree04bf2e43edf940d0315452c747c1961b6466e27e /odk
parent60274d430881ffe8681a2920b4df589d16942ace (diff)
Fix instructions for setting up the SDK
(see the mail thread starting at <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2019-December/084013.html> "Beginner's question about installing Libreoffice SDK") Change-Id: Iea0c394ec052587cdf4ba2a6a7ab38f4214ccbf0 Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/85374 Tested-by: Jenkins Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
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@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@
</tr>
<tr valign="middle">
<td colspan="2">
- <p>The SDK provides an implicit configuration
- mechanism, which configures the SDK build
+ <p>The SDK provides a
+ mechanism which configures the SDK build
environment to your personal needs the first time
you use the SDK environment. This configuration
step creates a new setsdkenv_XXX script in the
@@ -219,11 +219,22 @@
<li><b>C:\Documents and Settings\&lt;username&gt;\Application Data\%OO_SDK_NAME%\setsdkenv_windows.bat</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;-&gt;
for Windows</li>
</ul>
- <p>The automatically started configure script (Unix-like systems
- and Windows) requests relevant information
+ <p>To start the configure script, change into the SDK root directory and
+ run:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>./setsdkenv_unix</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;-&gt;
+ for Unix-like systems</li>
+ <li><b>setsdkenv_windows.bat</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;-&gt;
+ for Windows</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>The configure script
+ requests relevant information
and directories (SDK, LibreOffice, GNU make, Java,
C++), in order to prepare a working SDK
- environment. After completing the configure script
+ environment. (On Unix-like systems, the configure script recursively
+ starts a new interactive shell with the relevent environment variables
+ set; this is not needed on Windows.)
+ After completing the configure script
once, the newly created script is always used to
set the necessary environment variables for using
the SDK and the required tools.</p>