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

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:14:55 +0200
Nezmer at allurelinux.org wrote:

> 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.

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