[Qgis-developer] OSX build instructions update

William Kyngesburye woklist at kyngchaos.com
Sat May 2 10:33:18 EDT 2009


On May 2, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi William
>
> On 02 May 2009, at 6:00 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> I took the liberty of updating the INSTALL build instructions for  
>> OSX in trunk.  INSTALL should probably be updated for other  
>> systems, as there are some old version references (both  
>> dependencies, and QGIS itself).  Should INSTALL be updated in  
>> release 1.1 before release?
>
> I think its missed the cut for 1.1 - we'll include an update for  
> 1.1.1. Note that INSTALL is actually an autogenerated document from  
> docs/INSTALL.t2t (we use text2tags to maintain it). so we will need  
> to port your changes into the source t2t document. The same source  
> document is used to generate wiki markup for the wiki install page  
> and LaTeX for the user guide.
>
I knew the wiki page was generated from something in the source.  And  
I now vaguely remember the t2t doc ;)
>
> It would probably be good to include both 'old' cmake way and the  
> new xcode gui way of building on Mac OS X although I guess this  
> involves some duplication of effort....
>
I did leave the cmake build info in there.


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