[haiku-development] Re: New bug reports

  • From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:12:45 +0200

On 2009-04-03 at 08:58:30 [+0200], Rob Judd <judd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Urias McCullough wrote:
> >> When I did an alpha-raw build yesterday none of the packages 
> >> downloaded were
> >> named Development, and I did install all of them to my Haiku hard 
> >> drive. Maybe you could provide a url to this package?
> >>     
> >
> > It's not a zip file, it's a "package" - meaning it's a target for 
> > installing something to the image and makes up multiple tools, the 
> > headers/libs, some symlinks, etc.
> >
> > See here:
> >
> > http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/build/jam/OptionalPackages#L178
> >
> > That's why I indicated in the forums that you really should install 
> > this package when building your images, as it's not something you can 
> > easily install afterward.
> >   
> Ah, it's an optional build target. Now it's making sense, thanks. I think 
> I finally have UserBuildConfig sorted out.

There is an ongoing effort to clean up all the various instructions and 
tutorials on our main website, since it can be confusing to find the right 
information. Until that is finished... if you have the "Welcome" optional 
package installed (which is also not a .zip, but gets installed from files 
in the source tree), then I would very much recommend reading

/boot/beos/documentation/userguide/en/installation/install-source-linux.html

In the second half, it has an excellent introduction to using build 
profiles. Note that this part of the user guide was intended to be 
replicated on our website somewhere. The page is not directly accessible 
from the User Guide itself, since it doesn't make so much sense to read it 
from within Haiku when you have Haiku already installed. But anyways, this 
is up2date and accurate information. Take the time to read it carefully and 
save yourself a lot of misunderstanding with regards to build profiles and 
optional packages.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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