[Bf-committers] New wiki page for building on FreeBSD

[pete larabell]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll make the changes. :)

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:25 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi again :)
>>
>> Sorry for omitting the URL from the last message, the wiki page is HERE:
>>
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Building_Blender/FreeBSD
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I've written a wiki page for building blender 2.5x on FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> I just wrote an update to it after verifying that python32 is now
>>> correct in the ports tree.
>>>
>>> The instructions should work on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386/amd64.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Peter
>
> Good to see FreeBSD build docs :)
>
> Some things I noticed while reading...
> - you had to document applying the glew update, just committed glew
> 1.5.8 patch, r35550 so this isn't needed.
> - the build dir is different to the linux docs, its arbitrary but may
> as well settle on one, how about "~/blender-svn/blender" for svn,
> "~/blender-svn/build" for the out of source build?
> - explanations about threaded "make -jN" are being duplicated about,
> we should have a small wiki page for this which can be inlined, not
> urgent.
> - On rebuilding calling cmake or ccmake shouldn't be needed since
> explicitly listing source + headers in CMakeLists.txt, cmake will
> automatically run if needed, if for some reason BSD needs cmake to
> configure each time,  "ccmake ../blender" can be replaced with "cmake
> ../blender" so the user doesnt have to
> configure via the UI.
>
> --
> - Campbell
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