[arch-general] Building iron from source Was:Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

[Nezmer at allurelinux.org]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:21:03PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
> Am Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:35:04 +0200
> schrieb Nezmer at allurelinux.org:
> 
> > That's not a problem. Source redistribution is allowed so we can host
> > the sources wherever we want.
> > 
> > I'm interested in a built-from-source native x86_64 iron package. The
> > "build" directory in the iron sources is empty though.
> > 
> > I didn't dig deep enough yet trying to build iron. If anyone have
> > done this before , please tell me how. I'm willing to maintain this
> > in AUR If needed.
> 
> I tried it but had the problem that makepkg told me, that it hadn't had
> the rights to run ./configure. It's probably one of the 7-Zip problems
> because 7-Zip doesn't store file attributes.
> 
> In accordance with the README file it should simply be done by the usual
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> 
> Heiko
"chmod +x configure" will get you started. But It will fail soon after
that.